Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-08 Thread Lampa
Hello, seem to be problem of vpopmail. There is only solution to set sticky bit on whole domain but no for user (maybe it's possible but i don't know how). 2008/4/8, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 06:48 +0200, Lampa wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there some way how t

Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-08 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 06:48 +0200, Lampa wrote: > Hello, > > is there some way how to disable temporarily account or access to > files. If you just disable a user's access, you also need to kill any existing processes the user might have. > I need to backup with tar, but there is problem when t

Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-08 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Maybe the problem is not with Dovecot, but with your backup strategy? The same problem exists with files in regular homedirs. You could look into generic solutions for this problem f.i. LVM snapshots. Regards, Tom Lampa schreef: Hello, that's not good solution ;( some mailboxes have 1

Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-07 Thread Curtis Maloney
Lampa wrote: Hello, MTA is qmail, and there is no problem with it (qmail is stopped for current user - sticky bit set). Problem is dovecot - and is not possible to stop dovecot (due to clients) Well, the "deny passwd file" would be a great solution about now, don't you think? http://wiki.do

Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-07 Thread Lampa
Hello, that's not good solution ;( some mailboxes have 1 - 3GB. So need another solution Or it can be feature request: disable access when user homedir is sticky ? 2008/4/8, Tolga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Lampa wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > MTA is qmail, and there is no problem with it (qmail i

Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-07 Thread Tolga
Lampa wrote: Hello, MTA is qmail, and there is no problem with it (qmail is stopped for current user - sticky bit set). Problem is dovecot - and is not possible to stop dovecot (due to clients) Then copy mailboxes to somewhere else and make backup there. 2008/4/8, Tolga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-07 Thread Lampa
Hello, MTA is qmail, and there is no problem with it (qmail is stopped for current user - sticky bit set). Problem is dovecot - and is not possible to stop dovecot (due to clients) 2008/4/8, Tolga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Lampa wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > is there some way how to disable tempo

Re: [Dovecot] temporary disable account

2008-04-07 Thread Tolga
Lampa wrote: Hello, is there some way how to disable temporarily account or access to files. I need to backup with tar, but there is problem when tar is reading and some file changed (with --ignore-failed-read it continues but archive is not created and without --ignore-failed-read it fails).