Re: Filter ownership

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:19:41 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Alessandro Vesely writes:

> Hi Sam,
>
> The courierfilter(8) man page doesn't suggest that filters and Courier  
> executables share the same ownership.  I don't remember why I've been  
> setting filters ownership to courier:courier.  Is there a reason to do so?

Not really, as long as the executable is executable by the courier user.

> Not hardcoding ownership came unnoticed.  I got no error for not removing -- 
> with-mailuser and --with-mailgroup options from my configure call.  And  
> courier-config still reports them.  What would be the best place to set  
> those uid:gid, on installing authlib?  I'd guess it'd be a nightmare to  
> change them after installation, and see no reason why one would want to do  
> so...

If you don't specify --with-mailuser and --with-mailgroup and courier- 
authlib is already installed the configure script will use courier-config to  
obtain the current defaults.

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