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Filepriviledge checking (a poll) (was: vacation)
This undoubtly has more common interest..
> > > Has anyone gotten the vacation program (the one that comes with zmailer)
> > > to work? Something bounces back saying "mail to program disallowed".
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > See if:
> > - ~user -directory has protection wider than 755
> > - ~user/.forward has protections wider than 644
> > - ~user/.forward is not owned by the same user as
> > ~user -directory is (~user can be owned by the root)
>
> Yes, that indeed is what was happening. Is there a way
> (including changing source code modifications) to make zmailer
> accept ~user directories with group-write permissions? Or where
> should I be looking if I want to tweak .forward permission checking
> to my liking?
router/conf.c: filepriv_mask -variable.
See associated comments.
A poll: Should that be settable from a cf-file ?
Should it be TWO mask varibles ? One for
the file, another for the directory ?
> Thanks.
>
> Julio Polo
> U of Hawaii
/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi> <mea@utu.fi>