[Dovecot] A Couple Of Issues (APOP Causes Auth SIGSEGV, Umask Setting Ineffective)

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

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Hi Timo,

On 16 Oct 2005 at 15:57, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> spoke, thus:

> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 19:05 +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
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> > Hi Timo,
> > 
> > On 1 Oct 2005 at 14:02, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> spoke, thus:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:10 +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > > 2.  Umask setting gone strange.  I set it, per example comment, to
> > > > "7077" rather than default of 0077 (just to be precise...).
> > > 
> > > I think this is because 7077 is treated as decimal. Use 07077 so it
> > > gets back to octal.
> > 
> > I'm afraid this hasn't worked.  Newly created objects are now rwxrwx---.
> 
> What objects do you mean? I just tried with "umask = 07077" and all
> directories seem to be created correctly with only user=rwx permissions.

Hmm, quite right.  I meant directories too.  I think I also duplicated a 
new mail into the test folder at the time.  I tried again, and now it 
works fine.  I must have missed something last time.

> Also there isn't really much point in changing the default 0077 to 07077
> since Dovecot never tries to set the first 3 bits anyway.

Of course, but this is what happens when you let me near any alpha 
software.  Actually, it's what happens when you let me near *any* 
software.  I'll start by trying to make it not work anymore. ;-)

> Your APOP problem is now fixed in CVS though. The problem was just that
> it didn't like the shadow passdb. I'll release alpha4 in a few days too.

Marvellous.  Thanks!  You have a fine server here.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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