[Dovecot] Dovecot shared mailbox folder problem

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

> # l /mnt/mailcache/shared/.testAccess -n
> total 24
> drwxrws--- 5 31045 30005 4096 2007-07-04 15:53 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 6     0     0 4096 2007-07-04 16:08 ../
> drwxrwsr-x 2 31045 30005 4096 2007-06-21 12:19 cur/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 31045 30005   17 2007-07-04 15:38 dovecot-acl
> -rw-rw---- 1 31045 30005    0 2007-07-04 15:53 dovecot-shared
>
> I added chmod o+rx for testing purpose, just in case.

Hmm, it would be possibly interessting to know who is who ;-)
# id dvtest2
uid=31022(dvtest2) gid=102(Debian-exim) 
groups=102(Debian-exim),30005(dvtestgrp)

The filesystem is a local, plain ext3 in Linux.

> stracing the situation results in:
> read(0, "3 select \"Shared.testAccess\"\r\n", 3978) = 30
> setsockopt(1, SOL_TCP, TCP_CORK, [1], 4) = 0
> stat64("/mnt/mailcache/shared/.testAccess", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0770,
> st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> stat64("/mnt/mailcache/shared/.testAccess/cur", 0xbf8cb470) = -1 EACCES
> (Permission denied)

The permissions of both directories are the same, aren' t they?
Why fails the 2nd stat(), but the 2st one succeeds?

Bye,
- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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