On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:13:50PM +0200, Michal Kurowski wrote:
-> Hi,
-> I'm facing an annoying problem here that seems to be trival
-> but I cannot find any good explanation. I've got fetchmail
-> running from cron and a .fetchmailrc in my /home directory
-> set up with 'chmod 0600'. The result is there exists a fetchmail
-> process for a root and fetchmail for a user wich works well when
-> invoked with '-v' option. Changing permitions makes
-> fetchmail stop.
-> It' a 5.1.0 vesrion on Mandrake Air.
-> How can I make it behaving propely?
->
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-> Michal Kurowski
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Fetchmail is behaving properly. Anything other than permissions of 0600
would allow other users to read from or write to .fetchmailrc, a security
leak.
Each user should run its own fetchmail daemon as needed (you should not
need a cron job). You can launch the daemons from .bash_profile so that
the user need not do anything to start it.
Next question: why are you running fetchmail from root at all? That
suggests you are having root get and send mail from outside your
system. That is sloppy security, in the sense that you should never do
anything from root that you can do as a user, just in case you slip up and
do something silly like "rm -r /".
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