[Dovecot] Umask of Homedir

[Timo Sirainen]

Changing the parent dir doesn't do anything if mail_location also isn't changed. It doesn't work with %h/maildir. (I can't really remember why I decided to do it this way.. Should document it somewhere with reasons. :)

On 20.4.2011, at 21.59, Francisco Wagner C. Freire wrote:

> The a/ac part is generated from md5 part of domainname, i want to change to
> hash modifier according to: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables this is my
> next step :) because this is my new installation profile.
> 
> Using 02770 on parent, dovecot create homedir with this permission:
> 
> drwx--S---  3   50 _sysadms    3 Apr 20 15:55 cb
> 
> A member of _sysadms group cant access:
> id -> uid=450010(_freire) gid=450000(_sysadms) groups=450000(_sysadms)
> 
> cd cb
> -su: cd: cb: Permission denied
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> On 20.4.2011, at 21.34, Francisco Wagner C. Freire wrote:
>> 
>>> mail_location = maildir:%h/maildir:INDEX=%h/cache
>> ..
>>> /storage/a/ac/domainname/users/account/maildir
>> 
>> What's the a/ac/ part? Is this if the domain begins with ac? Dovecot v2.0
>> has this "smart" logic where if you set e.g.:
>> 
>> mail_location = maildir:/storage/%1d/%2d/%d/users/%n/maildir:INDEX=%h/cache
>> 
>> Then if the domainname directory (or first of the existing parent dirs) has
>> 02770 permissions, they are copied to the directories created under it.
>> 
>>