Re: Problem with runas

[Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>]

> Hi!
> Debugging my configuration I have discovered strange behaviour of "runas"
> function. It seems impossible to pass "-M" "644" arguments to "filepriv"
> function.
> Look on this interactive session:
> 	proton<jurek>(773)# /export/local/mail/bin/router -i
> 	ZMailer router (2.97mea #4: Tue Nov 22 10:05:26 MET 1994)
			^^^^
		Yes, 2.97 had something amiss in the way
		how it parsed its arguments.  (2.98 fixed this,
		but had other things broken badly enough.)

		Please pick 2.99.3 + patch4
....
> 	z# filepriv -M 644 /home/neutron2/p/jurek/.forward
> 	302
> 	z# runas 60001 filepriv -M 644 /home/neutron2/p/jurek/.forward
> 	-M: No such file or directory
> 	filepriv: cannot fopen("-M")!
> 	z# runas 60001 filepriv /home/neutron2/p/jurek/.forward
> 	302
> 	z# 
> As you can see in first and third case everything works OK but in second
> case not! This sequence is a part of "getpriv" function and now I have
> a problem to make it working.
> As you can notice I am still using 2.97mea I did not have a time
> for upgrade :-(
> Is the problem fixed in newr releases?

	Yep, and I am using it to allow different file priviledges
	for  .forwards and $MAILVAR/lists/ -files.  (The latter
	ones can be allowed to have group-write, while the first
	should not...)

> 	Jurek
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jerzy Sobczyk              ____________ ___     Institute of Control and
> J.Sobczyk@ia.pw.edu.pl    /  /     |  |/  _\    Computation Engineering, 

	/Matti Aarnio	<mea@nic.funet.fi>