David Niklas writes:
Hello, I've successfully run the tests of courier 0.75.0 up to the part where the msg writes info into the ID and ENV files. Strangely, id output no info into the ID file though sh wrote "/root/.profile" Permission denied. The env command output many variables all from /etc/profile, thought the docs say that courier should have a sanatized environment. All the files in /etc are default for courier with the exception that I removed the database modules from courier's authdaemond so that they would not load. I imagine that courierd is sourcing /etc/profile as root and then trying to read the user's (root's) .profile file. The docs do not specify a method of solving this, what do I do?
The short, blunt answer is "figure it out". Something is definitely borked in your environment. You need to figure out why supposedly a new shell started under your userid wants to read /root/.profile. That's obviously wrong.
courierd does not source anything. It is a binary executable. "courier start" runs the courierctl.start script that reads the courierd configuration file with the -a flag, which imports its contents as environment variables, then starts courierd.
One of the sections in the courierd config file, named "SYSLOCALE" sources what the configure script detected as the system configuration file that sets the default system locale. It's a config file that's picked from a fixed list of known system config files. At this time, it's the first file from the following list which exists:
/etc/environment /etc/default/locale/etc/sysconfig/i18n /etc/sysconfig/language
/etc/locale.confIf none of these are found, that section in the courierd file is blank. If found, the contents are read.
I think that courier is not getting started correctly, if you see stuff in your /etc/profile. That shouldn't happen. courierctl.start should be executing 'env -i', to wipe out all traces of your login shell's environment.
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