Re: Need some very very basic help with Maildrop please

"brian" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/12/2011 01:50 PM, Fabio Catunda wrote:
> In this case, I believe that it's normal for maildrop, look:

Not sure which point exactly you are referring to above?

> # man maildrop
> ... -d user
> .... In all cases, the -d option is allowed if user is the same user 
> who is running maildrop. 
Yeah read that, but I must say I dont understand it. Fetchmal runs with 
USER= Fetchmail
So if the -d parm can only be the same as the USER running maildrop, 
then I could only use fetchmail as the user there. True?


> Also, for the -d option to work at
> all, maildrop must be executed by root, or maildrop must be a 
> root-owned program with the setuid bit set. Absence of a filename on 
> maildrop's command line implies the -d option for the user running 
> maildrop...."
>
I am running maildrop without a filename.

> I'm not a fetchmail user, but I believe that if you try to run 
> fetchmail with root privilege everything will just work. (it's not 
> very safe... but hey, at least it will work).
>
> Regards,
>
> Fábio Catunda.
I am the only one that has access to the server, so I can try it like 
that. But I assume it must be possible with a different user.

Going to check the setuid bit and permissions set to 600 as Sam pointed out.

I much appreciate the help.
Cheers Brian

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