On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 04:50, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:40:45AM -0600, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:29, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > > somebody in sqwebmail list once told me that this
> > > > could be a bug. is it true?
> > > 
> > > This bug has been reported only when vpopmail is being used.  As such, this 
> > > is likely to be a bug in vpopmail.
> > 
> > just curious, but how would an sqwebmail-ip file have anything to do
> > with vpopmail?
> 
> Because vpopmail is returning the wrong userid, so sqwebmail is running as
> root (uid=0) instead of the correct uid for that user?

you would think, however, that this so-called flaw would be apparent in
other uses of vpopmail, such as qmail-pop3d, bincimap, etc..

-Jeremy

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