[Dovecot] imap dump-capability fails Dovecot 1.1.6
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 31 18:36:53 EET 2008
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:32 +0100, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
> On 31.10.2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:32 +0100, Thorsten Vollmer wrote:
> [...]
> > > Adding a fake home directory to args in
> > > master-settings.c:get_imap_capability solved the problem for me, but
> > > there may be a more correct fix.
> >
> > Yes, that's the correct fix:
> > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/2fbd36039526
>
> With the corresponding fix in dovecot-1.2 dovecot doesn't start anymore for
> me:
>
> setgid(65534) failed with euid=1001, gid=1001, egid=1001: Operation not
> permitted
> Error: imap dump-capability process returned 89
>
> It turns out that rev 2fbd36039526 changed the indices in the args array that
> some other code get_imap_capability relied on so that the uid and gid are not
> overwritten properly when dovecot is not started as root. See this patch:
Oh. Right. It didn't give that error with me, so I assumed it worked.
Well, I fixed it just by moving home to last:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/cbde69815b8a
> The Patch is not an attachment this time to avoid mailman breaking the openpgp
> signature.
Hmm. It does that?
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