Permissions with mailman

[Niklas Lemcke - 林樂寬]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:49:14 -0700
Robert L Mathews <lists at tigertech.com> wrote:

> On 7/3/14, 11:03 AM, Niklas Lemcke - 林樂寬 wrote:
> 
> > Jul  2 15:29:39 blade01 dovecot: lda(list): Error: user list:
> > Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from mail_location
> > setting failed: mkdir(/var/mail/vmail//list/mail) failed: Permission
> > denied (euid=38(list) egid=38(list)
> 
> > Now since dovecot is running as user vmail
> 
> According to the error, it's not running as user vmail for this
> delivery. It's running as uid/gid 38, "list".
> 
> Look at how "lda" gets executed for this delivery to see why it's using
> uid 38.
> 

Thanks

I'm not sure why it's using uid 38, but even so, the user list is in the
group vmail and thus should be able to write to /var/mail/vmail.
However it reports it's not in the group.

=> confused


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Niklas - 林樂寬
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