On 15/04/21 16:40, Markus Wanner wrote:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On 15.04.21 16:20, Flavio Stanchina wrote:
The fix for #984810 breaks maildrop "delivery mode" because maildrop is
no longer able to look up user details after dropping privileges (or at
least this is what I think is happening, from my understanding of how
"delivery mode" works).
Hm.. shouldn't the user running maildrop be part of the 'courier' group? I
don't think that's sufficient justification for making the information
world-readable.
Ah, I didn't consider that; or rather, I thought it was but I forgot that
dspam is running as its own user/group. However, after adding user "dspam"
to group "courier" it's still not working:
Apr 15 17:01:29 stanchina dspam[6766]: Delivery agent returned exit code
67: /usr/bin/maildrop -d delivery-test
Apr 15 17:01:29 stanchina courierlocal:
id=00025C3C.60785549.1A68,from=,addr=:
ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied
Apr 15 17:01:29 stanchina courierlocal:
id=00025C3C.60785549.1A68,from=,addr=:
Invalid user specified.
Apr 15 17:01:29 stanchina courierlocal:
id=00025C3C.60785549.1A68,from=,addr=,status:
deferred
I guess either dspam or maildrop are dropping privileges *before* querying
the userdb.
I need to test by removing dspam from the equation and having Courier call
maildrop directly, as per the standard Courier configuration, but that's
not something I can do at my pleasure on the involved servers. I'll need to
set up a test installation.
However, I question why this needs to be done in this way; when I saw the
changelog entry and the bug report, I knew it would break something. While
I agree that showing the password hash (and the cleartext password, if
present) to normal users is not good, the rest of the info obtained through
authtest is on the same level of sensitivity as "getent passwd" and that's
available to normal users (I think it needs to). Also, as touched upon in
#984810, I firmly believe this needs to be assessed in cooperation with
upstream to evaluate pros and cons before implementing a fix.
--
Ciao, Flavio
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer
