On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:58:43PM +0000, Mike Miller wrote: > [vpopmail - 5.3.20] > > So I installed vpopmail and now I'm compiling courier-IMAP as a > non-root user (like a good boy). Problem is, /var/vpopmail/lib and the > libvpopmail.a library are chmodded 700 without permissions besides root. > Maybe this should be 755 or 750 by default to allow such problems to link > with the static library. I of course changed the permissions to allow > group permissions, but I think the default should allow. > > -M
755 would be a bad idea, since there's potentially sensitive information statically compiled into the librarys (like sql passwords) that could be easily read by other users. I usually just compile courier up to the point where it fails on that, then go back as root and re-run gmake. It finishes compiling and I've never had a problem with it. I think the correct solution would be fixing courier-imap to compile properly as root, but that's just my personal opinion. --Doug
