Ken Jones wrote:
>
> Greg Cope wrote:
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > I used vmkpasswd to recreate the vpasswd.cdb files as I hade moved
> > vpopmail from one machine to another, and changed the install dir to
> > /var/vpopmail.
> >
> > When run it changes the owner/group to whom ever is running it (in my
> > case root). I did not notice this and it then broke bits of qmailadmin.
> >
> > Can this be highlighted in the documentation, or can a simple chown call
> > (to change back to vpopuser:vpopgroup) be added to the end to change
> > vpasswd and vpasswd.cdb back to the right owners ?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > ps thanks for a great bit of software !
>
> I can not replicate the problem. vmkpasswd is setting the ownership.
> In the cdb module
> int make_vpasswd_cdb(char *domain)
>
> chown(vpasswd_cdb_file, uid, gid);
> chown(vpasswd_lock_file, uid, gid);
> chown(vpasswd_file, uid, gid);
>
> Which version of vpopmail are you using? 4.9.8-1 and 4.9.9 don't
> show this behavior on my Linux machine.
>
> Ken
egg => face
Whops, I now realise what happened (in copy the files from one machine
to the other I overwrote the originals with the new ones, with the wrong
user etc ...).
My appologies Ken + anyone else who's wasted time on this.
I still think vpopmail+qmailadmin+sqwebmail are great mind !
Appologies again.
Greg
