Dear Courier List writers!
Tell the newbies that the webadmin binary is a small front which
needs the setuid bit in order for it to run the "real stuff" with
the right permissions. Obvious! And then again?
This is perhaps as stupid as every other newbie comment. I was
impressed about courier and have written a small presentation about
getting it up and running but left out webadmin.
Later I wanted webadmin to run and got "Invalid password".
The list here gave the answer - I should have known, of
course, but I thought that webadmin would run as small
underprivileged front for the scripts doing the job and thought
that ./cgi-bin/webadmin wouldn't need the (dangerous) sticky bit
then.
The comment below helped me get that straightened! Fine -
so fine, works so well, I am happy!!!
Thanks for a fine list and a superb mail server.
Donald Axel
> # From: Stuart Wells
> # Subject: [courier-users] re: Courier Webadmin
> # Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:33:29 -0700
>
> I ran into the exact same problem last night when I
> did a build of courier on a slackware 9.1 box. I'm a
> newbie as well, and I had misread the install
> instructions, do the configure, make and make check as
> non-root and the make install as root. (I had only
> done the configure as non-root before). When I copied
> the webadmin file over to the cgi-bin directory, I
> also noticed that it lost the sticky bit - you should
> be able to fix that (as root) by running ' chmod +s
> webadmin ' in your cgi-bin directory.
>
> Hope this helps! I got webadmin working fairly
> easily, however...
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