Hi, On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:19:38PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > I tracked this down and discivered that running maildrop as an arbitrary > > non-root user fails with option -d (i.e. needing to access the > > courier-authdaemon) because this user has no filesystem rights to access > > /var/run/courier/authdaemon/socket because the authdaemon's directory is > > not accessible in the default setup: > > > > drwxr-x--- 2 daemon daemon 4096 Sep 1 15:34 /var/run/courier/authdaemon > > > > Doing a chmod a+x /var/run/courier/authdaemon solves the problem. But I > > don't know whether it is a good idea to do this in general. Probably > > it's better to chown this directory to group mail or something similar > > maildrop has access to. > > Or just not use -d if you don't need it. See the other subthread :)
Well, but what *if* you need it? That should be topic here, shouldn't it? ;-) I think at least the maildrop.7 manpage should be updated and at least mention the courier-authdaemon. This might be rather an upstream issue though... Have a nice day Micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
