- Original Message -
From: "Eric Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:48 AM
Subject: [courier-users] Webmail only works SUID root
> I'm trying to get Webmail working, but I find that it denies any logins at
> all (claiming invalid
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:48:10AM -0500, Eric Livingston wrote:
> I'm trying to get Webmail working, but I find that it denies any logins at
> all (claiming invalid user ID or password) unless I make the webmail
> executable suid root. This is clearly not agreeable - clearly there's
> something th
> From: Brian Candler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> You need to be root for PAM to be able to read your shadow
> password file. If
> you are running a separate authdaemond then you can make
> sqwebmail suid to
> some other user, and chown the authdaemon socket to that uid.
>
> However, all you
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:02:51AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > From: Brian Candler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > You need to be root for PAM to be able to read your shadow
> > password file. If
> > you are running a separate authdaemond then you can make
> > sqwebmail suid to
> > some ot
> From: Brian Candler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:56 PM
>
> > I don't quite follow what you mean by "chown the authdaemon socket".
> > What/where is the authdaemon socket?
>
> It's a Unix domain socket, in the filesystem, which
> authdaemon clients use
> to
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:15:44PM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > # ls -ld /var/courier-imap/authdaemon
> > drwx-- 2 exim exim 512 Jan 21 15:38
> > /var/courier-imap/authdaemon
> > # ls -l /var/courier-imap/authdaemon
> > total 2
> > -rw--- 1 root exim 0 Aug 8 09:47 lock
> > -rw-r--
