Another good suggestion, I found /var/qmail/users/assign and shock horror the uid and gid where the same as when vqadmin created them 1012:108 - so spot on ! the problem is how vqadmin is creating the domains and obviously now, just chowning the domains is not enough.
Great job ! Thanks, Matt. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 May 2003 17:02 To: DARCY,MATTHEW (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex2) Cc: 'Tom Collins'; vpopmail list Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Unable_to_switch_to_/home/vpopmail/domains - Hi, Check the uid and gid of the domain in question in the /var/qmail/assign file. Regards, Rick DARCY,MATTHEW (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex2) wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for the input. > > I think you are confusing my configuration a little. > > Qmailadmin doesn't need the suid and sgid bit set, neither does vchkpw > (vchkpw is the application having the problem) > > If you look at the other domains in my directory, they are working %100 fine > (I used vchkpw command line to create them) > > Also according to the lifewithqmail.org site, qmail-smtpd should be run as > root. I am running qmail-smtpd as root. > > Again I don't think this to be the problem as the other domains are working, > I think it is more that vqadmin is creating "problem" domains and my > chowning to the correct uid and gid is not enough to allow vchkpw to work. > > Thanks, > > Matt. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 May 2003 16:32 > To: vpopmail list > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Unable_to_switch_to_/home/vpopmail/domains - > > On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 07:31 AM, DARCY,MATTHEW > (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex2) wrote: > >>Every time I create a domain using vqadmin I get a permissions >>problem (look at problem.com) > > >>and before you ask yes when I built vqadmin I set the user and group >>flags to vpopmail:vckpw and it reported groups 89:89 so it had the >>right user details - I had no idea why it is doing this. > > > I'm not sure about vqadmin, but I know that qmailadmin needs to have > the suid and sgid bits set. > > Try running `chmod ug+s vqadmin` and giving it another try. > > >>@400000003ed617fc28c74714 delivery 877: deferral: >>Unable_to_switch_to_/home/vpopmail/domains/ >>parsonsmotorsport.co.uk:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/ > > > How do you start qmail-smtpd? You need to have it start with the user > and group id of vpopmail. If you're using a setup like > /service/qmail-smtpd/run, then your run script should look something > like this: > > #!/bin/sh > QMAILDUID=`id -u vpopmail` > NOFILESGID=`id -g vpopmail` > MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` > LOCAL=`/usr/bin/head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` > export DENYMAIL="DNSCHECK" > export QMAILQUEUE='/var/qmail/bin/qmail-spamc' > export PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" > /usr/bin/spamd -a -c -d -u qmailq > exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 6000000 \ > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -l "$LOCAL" \ > -x /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ > -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp \ > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd $LOCAL \ > /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 2>&1 > > Don't copy mine exactly, but take a look at the QMAILDUID and > NOFILESGID lines at the top, and the -u and -g options to tcpserver. > > -- > Tom Collins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
