Re: [Dovecot] Index corruption

On 18.10.2004, at 08:32, Gregory Bond wrote:

I've had a bit more of a play and I understand it a bit better. Looks like restrict_access_by_env() is being called in 2 different contexts the auth daemon). The call as root fails because the program tries

• once to establish the "dovecot" user , once as root (presumably in

setgid() to prove it can't, but as root this works.

Ah, I see. I didn't realize that root's gid might not be 0.

•           if (getgid() == 0 || getegid() == 0 || setgid(0) == 0) 

  {

•           if (getgid() == 0 || getegid() == 0 || (uid != 0 && 

  setgid(0) == 0)) {

Looks good, committing.