Re: Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" writes: > What is the reason for mailboxes to be owned by group mail when in > Debian we have per-user groups and AFAIK no daemons or other system > processes belong to the mail group? So that you can, if you choose, run mail delivery agents and POP/IMAP servers as something ot

Re: Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: The subject came up in the course of bug #693114 which in a nutshell is caused by dovecot by default copying the permissions of the users mailbox in /var/mail for indexes in the users home directory. Naturally, this fails when the user is not a membe

Why are mailboxes in /var/mail owned by group mail?

2012-12-19 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
The subject came up in the course of bug #693114 which in a nutshell is caused by dovecot by default copying the permissions of the users mailbox in /var/mail for indexes in the users home directory. Naturally, this fails when the user is not a member of group mail. What is the reason for mai