[Dovecot] Question re: filesystem permissions

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Tue Jan 7 16:05:01 EET 2014


On 2014-01-07 8:42 AM, Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net> wrote:
> * Charles Marcus <CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com> 2014.01.06 21:23:
>
> Hi Charles,
>
>> /var/vmail/example1.com  777
> $ ls -al /var/vmail/domains/leuxner.net/
>
> drwx--S--- 4 vmail vmail 4096 Sep  8 18:22 tlx
>
> Suffices to have rwx for the 'vmail' user only IMHO. Note the 'setgid bit (2700) inheriting the group 'vmail' across dirs.

Ok, thanks Thomas... but I'm really looking for what Timo says is the 
correct and proper permissions for a virtual setup like this.

I also really think this should be fully documented on the wiki...

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Best regards,

Charles




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