[Dovecot] Undeserved permissions error with g+s folder permissions

tlhackque tlhackque at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 18 22:25:27 EET 2012


> It's an MBox file that I'm trying to rename, not a directory.
> |  file Vendors/||
> ||Vendors/: setgid directory||
> ||  file Vendors/Test||
> ||Vendors/Test: empty||
> |
> (Perhaps you missed that I said I created it "messages only", and the 
> config I originally posted showed the file storage is mbox...)
>
> So  perhaps dovecot is confused - expecting an mbox file to have 
> directory permissions, when the directory it's in is setgid?  At least 
> that's how it has seemed to me all along...
>
> Thanks.
>
> This communication may not represent my employer's views,
> if any, on the matters discussed.
> On 18-Dec-12 14:28, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 18.12.2012 19:39, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
>>> On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 10:59 -0500, tlhackque wrote:
>>>> It contains a subdirectory:
>>>>
>>>> -rw-rw---- 1 thlackque mail 84805345 Dec  1 10:34 Vendors/AVendor
>>>>
>>>> If I try to rename the AVendor folder (client is Thunderbird 17.0), I
>>>> get this error:
>>>>
>>>>       Unable to rename across conflicting directory permisssions
>> this is 660 which is simply wrong for a directrory
>> in case of diretcories you need the excue flag means 770
>>
>


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