[Dovecot] Problem with created ~/mail directory

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Feb 6 20:31:00 EET 2010


On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:20 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> If a user doesn't have a ~/mail directory and logs in, the directory is
> created for them.  However, it is created with insecure permissions,
> 0770 (full group access).
> 
> The problem is this bit in src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c:
> 
>    #define CREATE_MODE 0770 /* umask() should limit it more */

Fixed: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/99caf87fb3ce

Also v2.0 handles this by copying the parent directory's permissions.

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