on 2-24-2009 5:56 PM Daniel Aleksandersen spake the following: > Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:36:00 +0100 (CET) > Fra: "Daniel Aleksandersen" >> Sendt: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:11:43 -0500 >> Fra: Timo Sirainent >>> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:38 +0100, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: >>>> Sendt: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29:17 +0100 >>>> Fra: Pascal Volk >>>>> On 25.02.2009 00:25 Daniel Aleksandersen wrote: >>>>>> The recepie assumes I have a group called secmail. I don’t. Am I >>>>>> supposed to create >>>>>> a special group for this purpose? >>>>> Yes, if the group does not exists, you have to create it. You could call >>>>> it whatever you want. >>>> I created the group and set the permissions to deliver as described in the >>>> recepie. I >>>> then added just about every user to that group. >>> No, don't do that. The point of it was to make deliver executable only >>> by your MTA, no one else. If other people were able to execute it, they >>> could gain root privileges. >> I started added other users just to troubleshoot the problems I have been >> havnig. >> It did not work anyways, so I have removed other users from theat group. >> >> The permissions still must be 777 or dovecot starts throwing permission >> errors. >> >> I have tried a variety of other permissions including 677, 767, 776. All >> fail but 777. > > ps -ef|grep exim shows that exim is run by user 101. A look into /etc/group > reveals > the user as libuuid. Debian-exim is user 103. Could this be what is causing my > problems? How do I change what user exim is run as? /etc/group is the group numbers, not the user numbers. They don't always coincide. /etc/passwd would have the user numbers.
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