On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:09:17AM -0700, David Bauman wrote:
> Good morning. We're using Courier-IMAP for our pop3 and imap services,
> and, while they're delivering mail to the users, the imap server is
> creating several files in the user's maildir. Here's an example:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx  10013 mail     mail       172032 Jun 20 18:04 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5907 Jun 21 08:38 courierimapuiddb

Fix your authentication configuration.  Your authentication requests come back
with the authenticated account's uid/gid being set to zero.

> Now, I know the imap server needs to create said files, and, I'm
> perfectly comfortable with it doing that, however, I need them to not be
> created by root. I'd basically like courier to not run as root at all,

It doesn't, unless you tell it to.

-- 
Sam


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