Hi, So I found the error myself. I was running bincimapd as vpopmail.vchkpw, but apparently only root has permissions to issue a chroot command. Editing my run script to run bincimapd as root makes the log warning go away.
This presents an interesting question, though; from a security point of view, is it better to run bincimapd as superuser so that it can issue the chroot command, or to run it as a less privileged account but then not being able to enter the chroot jail? If the latter, I'll comment the relevant lines of code in authenticate.cc out to get rid of the repetitive log message. Thanks! Anders -----Original Message----- From: Anders la Cour Bentzon Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 01:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [binc] Log warning: Unable to enter jail path Hello, I recently installed Binc IMAP on my Debian Woody box (along with qmail and vpopmail), and initially it seemed to be working fine. However, when I tried to get Squirrelmail to work with it, it failed miserably. That led me to investigate the log files, and I discovered a strange error: "Unable to enter jail path". Here is a full excerpt from a session (without time codes). I'm using multilog. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] Client connected to Binc IMAP from 127.0.0.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] Warning: unable to enter jail path "/usr/local/bincimap/bin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] User <anders> entered authenticated mode. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] Client disconnected [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] Mail server shutting down - bodies:0 statements:3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:] Unprivileged stub shutting down - read:49 bytes, wrote: 184 bytes Here I connected with Squirrelmail (obviously installed on the same computer). The behavior is the same if I use my regular mail client, with a different IP of course. Notice that my regular MUA works fine -- I can read mail, create folders, move mail etc. Webmail doesn't work, however, but that could be because I haven't configured it properly. At any rate, I believe Binc writing the above to the log constitutes an error. I tried changing the jail path (to /usr/bin), changing the jail user and group (from nobody.nogroup to root.root) to no avail. Please, can anyone help me with this? Thanks. Regards, Anders
