[Dovecot] ACLs: Group ACL adds empty ACL for user of same name, why?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 28 02:55:02 EEST 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 14:40 +0100, Jim Hague wrote:
> I'm playing around with ACLs, Groups and SOGo on Debian Stable, Dovecot 
> 1.2.15.
> 
> If I set an ACL for a group 'developers':
> 
> 6 setacl "INBOX.Trash" "$developers" "lrsw"
> 6 OK Setacl complete.
> 
> The dovecot-acl file for INBOX.Trash then contains a group setting for the 
> group, and a user setting for a user of the same name, giving it no 
> permissions.
> 
> group=developers lrws
> user=developers

Looks like a bug. I see it's fixed in v2.0 already. You can't get it
fixed to Debian stable .deb anyway, so I don't think there's much point
in trying to backport the fix.




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