[Dovecot] Second user problems

Amelia A Lewis amyzing at talsever.com
Sat Feb 18 17:37:47 EET 2006


On 2006-02-18 05:00:11 -0500 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 18 February 2006 08:42, Stroller wrote:
>> On 17 Feb 2006, at 12:17, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> Feb 17 09:21:19 packbell procmail[3149]: Suspicious rcfile
>>> "/home/david/.procmailrc"
>>> ...
>>> Suspicious procmailrc - I added new/ to the path today, as someone

Err.  No.

>> I don't use procmail, but I think maildrop shits out if the
>> permissions on its equivalent (".mailfilter") file are too liberal.
>> Can you post `ls -l ~david/.procmailrc ~anne/.procmailrc`, please?
> -rw-r--r--  1 anne users 2433 Feb 15 11:28 /home/anne/.procmailrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 anne users  467 Feb 17 09:14 /home/david/.procmailrc

Bingo.  David's .procmailrc is "suspicious" because Anne owns it.  procmail 
executing as David has permission to read, though.

Amy!
-- 
Amelia A. Lewis                    amyzing {at} talsever.com
So what is love then?  Is it dictated or chosen?  Does it sing like the
hymns of a thousand years or is it just pop emotion?  And if it ever was
here and it left does it mean it was never true?
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