--On 2006-12-04 8:39 PM -0800 Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hmm. It should only do that if the EUID was still you.
Try su instead of sudo and see what happens.
Using a just-downloaded and vanilla imap-2006d.DEV.SNAP-0612041740
distribution:
% make sol
...
% cd mailutil
% ./mailutil copy INBOX inbox-copy
[creates ~/inbox-copy as expected]
% rm ~/inbox-copy
% sudo -u emchen ./mailutil copy INBOX inbox-copy
Can't create mailbox node /home/m/s/msirota/inbox-copy: Permission denied
That's my home directory, not emchen's, that it's trying to create
the file in.
% sudo su emchen -c
"/usr/local/src/apps/imap-2006d.DEV.SNAP-0612041740/mailutil/mailutil copy
INBOX inbox-copy"
Can't create mailbox node /home/m/s/msirota/inbox-copy: Permission denied
Same thing.
% sudo su - emchen -c
"/usr/local/src/apps/imap-2006d.DEV.SNAP-0612041740/mailutil/mailutil copy
INBOX inbox-copy"
That works. In my opinion it's a little overcomplicated just to satisfy
the folks who use multiple usernames with different home directories and
the same UID; why not just use $HOME as you already do, rather than the
getlogin() route? It forces me to create login shells as each user, which
runs a lot more out of their startup environment and is therefore more
expensive.
But at least I have a workaround now. I'll have to consider whether to
keep carrying this patch around vs. patching my tools to use
'sudo su - user -c "command"' rather than 'sudo -u user command'.
Mark
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