Re: Re: sqwebmail-ip suddenly owned by root
Jeremy Kitchen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.sqwebmail |
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| Organization | Inter7.com |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 04:50, Brian Candler wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:40:45AM -0600, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:29, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > somebody in sqwebmail list once told me that this > > > > could be a bug. is it true? > > > > > > This bug has been reported only when vpopmail is being used. As such, this > > > is likely to be a bug in vpopmail. > > > > just curious, but how would an sqwebmail-ip file have anything to do > > with vpopmail? > > Because vpopmail is returning the wrong userid, so sqwebmail is running as > root (uid=0) instead of the correct uid for that user? you would think, however, that this so-called flaw would be apparent in other uses of vpopmail, such as qmail-pop3d, bincimap, etc.. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen Systems Administrator [email protected] Kitchen @ #qmail on EFNet - Join the party! ..................... Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com 866.528.3530 toll free 847.492.0470 int'l 847.492.0632 fax GNUPG key ID: 93BDD6CE