6 Oct
2010
6 Oct
'10
2:35 a.m.
On 6.10.2010, at 0.26, David Ford wrote:
it's a bug in dovecot to assume a) the user wants this gid change even without setgid, and b) that it can change the gid to an arbitrary value of a parent directory.
other software runs as <something>:net-mail, and it's use and operation is not applicable to this discussion. mode 0700 is not functional for this group of software and mode 0770 is too lax.
Your situation seems like a very special case that probably doesn't exist just about anywhere else. Unless someone can give me a specific use case for this that can't be solved nicely some other way, I'm not changing Dovecot's behavior.