Bug 146263 - unable to fetch mail
Summary: unable to fetch mail
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dovecot
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Dennis
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-26 15:34 UTC by Remigiusz Gorecki
Modified: 2014-01-21 22:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-07-22 20:07:42 UTC
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Description Remigiusz Gorecki 2005-01-26 15:34:56 UTC
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Description of problem:
Dovecot can't fetch any mail (even those stored in /var/spool/mail) if
user the parent of the user's home directory hasn't execute permition
for group root (x - bit).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dovecot-0.99.13-3.FC3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. chgrp users /home
2. chmod go-rwx /home
3.
    

Actual Results:  It is imposible to fetch any mail.

Additional info:

This problem is now fixed but in the test version of dovecot (e.g.
dovecot-1.0-test60 - see www.dovecot.org). It can be fixed by doing
not only setreuid(gid, gid) (in file mail-process.c) but first first
setregid(gid, gid) have to be done. Now after setreuid(gid, gid) is
executed user still belongs to the group root.

Comment 1 John Dennis 2005-07-22 20:07:42 UTC
I believe this was fixed in mail-process.c 1.70 which is in our current 0.99.14
version of dovecot, closing...


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