Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135693
cyrus-imapd package installed with root - must be cyrus
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:51 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: The cyrus-imapd package are installed with root as owner of /var/lib/imap and /var/spool/imap directories because cyrus user are created after files and directories creation. This cause problems because cyrus-imapd process run as cyrus user that don't have write permissions on above directories and it's files. The installation script must create cyrus user before coping files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install cyrus-imapd package (yum install cyrus-imapd) and you will see the warnings telling you that cyrus user doesn't exist and root will be used. 2. Try to start cyrus-imapd daemon, this will give you some erros on /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog. 3. Log in the cyradm administration interface as cyrus user and try to create a mailbox, you will get a permission denied message. Actual Results: The package are installed with root as owner of /var/lib/imap and /var/spool/imap directories and it's files, then create cyrus user account. That bring problems to system. Expected Results: The package create first of all, the cyrus user account, then install the files, that will be owned by cyrus user, as expected by cyrus daemons. Additional info: More information can be obtained in the logs after installing and running cyrus-imapd daemon
Is this still an issue in FC3? It seems that cyrus-imapd doesn't work after installation using default config, but I didn't try very hard.
Seems like a critical issue that should be a FC3Blocker if the bug still exists. Could be something as simple as missing %attr() flags in the cyrus %files section of the spec file.
I don't believe this is currently an issue any longer. I've been running a test installation of cyrus-imapd on FC3t2 with no problems and directory permissions are correct. I also checked the spec file, the cyrus user is created in %pre before files are actually installed. However note there was a bug in the FC2 timeframe with a delay between the invocation of useradd and the user being visible in the system due to a bug in NSCD (bug #125421). This caused a number of rpm installation problems that depended on creation of a user (I became familar with this because I own mailman and it was getting hit by the same thing). Summary: I think this is already fixed (root cause is known, no evidence in FC3) and its not a cyrus-imapd bug.