[Dovecot] managesieve does call a wrong chown

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Thu Jan 7 15:06:19 EET 2010


Timo Sirainen wrote:

> I think this should be handled the same way as Dovecot does if mail
> root's parent directory is 01777. Now, I'm not sure what Dovecot
> actually currently does in that situation.. :) v1.1 might do
> whatever, I think v1.2+ would try to make it 0777 and shouldn't try
> to change the group to root, because the group doesn't matter since
> it's world-rwx anyway. That doesn't seem to be the best solution
> though. Maybe it should check if the +t bit is set and then use 0700
> or maybe 0770 (maybe 01777 -> 0770, 01707 -> 0700?). I suppose I
> should write a function that does this so the code wouldn't have to
> be duplicated all around.

I'll wait for that one then.

Regards,

Stephan.


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