Re: Need some very very basic help with Maildrop please
"brian" <[email protected]>
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Courier-maildrop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-maildrop