Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail::adddomain problem

[Jeremy Kitchen]

On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:37 am, Cheurfa Linda wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm using qmail 1.03 coupled with vpopmail 5.2.1 on a Red Hat 7.2 machine.
 I experience some access rights problems with vpopmail when I execute
 vadddomain. It returns an error code (240) and the message Can not make
 domains directory.

tru running it as root.

 I suppose the inner directories of qmail can't be accessed by my user
 and I don't want to use root to do this.

you have to, because vadddomain also HUPs qmail-send, which you'd have to be 
root to do.

-Jeremy

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Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail::adddomain problem

[Ken Jones]

On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:04 pm, Cheurfa Linda wrote:
 Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
 On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:37 am, Cheurfa Linda wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm using qmail 1.03 coupled with vpopmail 5.2.1 on a Red Hat 7.2
  machine. I experience some access rights problems with vpopmail when I
  execute vadddomain. It returns an error code (240) and the message Can
  not make domains directory.
 
 tru running it as root.
 
 I suppose the inner directories of qmail can't be accessed by my user
 and I don't want to use root to do this.
 
 you have to, because vadddomain also HUPs qmail-send, which you'd have to
  be root to do.
 
 -Jeremy

 Well, I hear you, but why the FAQ of vpopmail says I can use vadddomain
 as non-root ? And since I want to execute the program from a web page,
 it'll be executed with apache privileges, which aren't root.

Sounds like the FAQ should be updated. You won't be able to get apache
to run vadddomain. The current ways to get apache to run it are to build
a cgi program, like vqadmin, that runs setuid root. Or to use the new
vpopmaild (vpopmail daemon) and have it add the domain for you.

Ken Jones