Bug#600007: environment option can not set USER for pipe transport
Hi again, Am Mittwoch, den 13.10.2010, 19:12 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: Am Mittwoch, den 13.10.2010, 19:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: Shouldn't this do as a workaround for the time being? command = /usr/bin/env USER=$local_p...@$domain /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f $sender_address Probably. I can also try to use use_shell, as the shell will probably re-do the environment and might read it from right to left. Confirmed. With “use_shell” the USER in environment takes precedence over exim’s own one. I assume that this is due to different parsing of the environment in the shell and in deliver. It works for me this way, but the behavior is still undesirably arbitrary. Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim nomeata Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#600007: environment option can not set USER for pipe transport
On 2010-10-12 Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: [...] Setting HOME works fine using home_directory. But it seems that I cannot set USER via the environment option, as in vuser_sieve: driver = pipe command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f $sender_address home_directory = /var/vhosts/$domain/$local_part environment = USER=$local_p...@$domain (with or without the quotes, does not matter) Reading the code (./src/transports/pipe.c, function pipe_transport_entry), I see that the entries from the environment option are just appended to the list of environment variables, so I assume that both values for USER – exim’s default and the one I set – are passed in the environment, leading to undefined behaviour. [...] This is also documented. (spec.txt 29.4 Environment variables: The environment variables listed below are set up when the command is invoked. [...] Note that the environment option can be used to add additional variables [...]) I think it would be better if entries in environment really override the defaults from exim. For me, this is not critical, as it only affects the logging output. But it certainly is unexpected behaviour. Such a setup is also recommended by dovceot, see the example on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim at the very bottom. [...] I will forward this upstream. Shouldn't this do as a workaround for the time being? command = /usr/bin/env USER=$local_p...@$domain /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f $sender_address cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#600007: environment option can not set USER for pipe transport
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 13.10.2010, 19:10 +0200 schrieb Andreas Metzler: On 2010-10-12 Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org wrote: [...] This is also documented. (spec.txt 29.4 Environment variables: The environment variables listed below are set up when the command is invoked. [...] Note that the environment option can be used to add additional variables [...]) yes, I noticed that it wasn’t working as expected. I think it would be better if entries in environment really override the defaults from exim. For me, this is not critical, as it only affects the logging output. But it certainly is unexpected behaviour. Such a setup is also recommended by dovceot, see the example on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim at the very bottom. [...] I will forward this upstream. Thanks. Shouldn't this do as a workaround for the time being? command = /usr/bin/env USER=$local_p...@$domain /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f $sender_address Probably. I can also try to use use_shell, as the shell will probably re-do the environment and might read it from right to left. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim nomeata Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#600007: environment option can not set USER for pipe transport
Package: exim4 Version: 4.72-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I’d like to use deliver (from the dovecot package) in a vhost setup without having deliver look up information from the dovecot-auth server. To that end, I need to set the environment variables HOME and USER. Setting HOME works fine using home_directory. But it seems that I cannot set USER via the environment option, as in vuser_sieve: driver = pipe command = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f $sender_address home_directory = /var/vhosts/$domain/$local_part environment = USER=$local_p...@$domain (with or without the quotes, does not matter) Reading the code (./src/transports/pipe.c, function pipe_transport_entry), I see that the entries from the environment option are just appended to the list of environment variables, so I assume that both values for USER – exim’s default and the one I set – are passed in the environment, leading to undefined behaviour. I think it would be better if entries in environment really override the defaults from exim. For me, this is not critical, as it only affects the logging output. But it certainly is unexpected behaviour. Such a setup is also recommended by dovceot, see the example on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim at the very bottom. Thanks, Joachim - -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.72 #1 built 03-Jun-2010 17:41:48 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April 9, 2010) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.6 GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.6 Configuration file is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf - -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages exim4 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4-base4.72-1 support files for all Exim MTA (v4 ii exim4-daemon-light4.72-1 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon exim4 recommends no packages. exim4 suggests no packages. - -- debconf information: exim4/drec: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAky0r7kACgkQ9ijrk0dDIGyIwACbBnnTHQ/Z28qm4YOuF1w+n0aV huwAmgLSMXIJAnTW4kxOUQqJL9XYlxF2 =N90d -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
