This is related to the previous email I sent about pop3lite...
I've got a machine that has an nfs mount for it's home directory.
About 3 months ago the machine that that directory resides on had all it's file permissions set to root (I did a chown -R / accidently).
This didn't seem to cause any problems until I tried to change my password. One I changed it, I couldn't log into my pop3 server anymore.
Other users who kept the same password are still able to access the pop3 server.
The pop3 server resides on the machine which has the nfs mount for its home directory.
If I try to do ls on any directory under the home directory I get the following:
ls: .: Permission denied
I'm guessing this is due to having chowned the entire filesystem to root.
It means I basically can't do anything to that folder from the remote machine, but I really don't care as long as I can get mail working.
Who should own the /home folder so that the pop3 server can get access to the files in the home directories of new users, or users with changed passwords?
I'm trying to run ls as root on the pop3 server (which is also the NIS master) and it gets denied, but running as root on the actual fileserver that shares out the nfs mount works fine.
I'm at a loss as to how to change passwords and still let users access their mail.
Thankfully nobody ever wants to change their password.
This becomes a major issue when creating new users, as the pop3 server refuses to make the .inbox file in their home directory available via pop3.
Any help would be great, even if it's "Ditch pop3 lite and use X, which allows you to set passwords manually)
Cheers,
Michael
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