Re: [Exim] Problems with writing to spool

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Author: Andreas Gietl
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To: Jim Knoble
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Problems with writing to spool
well ... they can't delete anything in the spool-dir at all, because the
spool-files are owned by their owners and chmod 644.
The problem is that exim want's to create a lock-file in the spool-dir
which of course fails! Is it possible to have these lockfiles created
anywhere else?

Making the spool-dir owned by the exim-user doesn't help, because exim
first sets its uid to the target user, before creating the lockfile.


Jim Knoble wrote:
>
> Circa 2000-Aug-07 12:53:21 -0400 dixit Dave C.:
>
> : Exim does a set_euid() call to set the id to the user its delivering
> : mail to when making local deliveries.
> :
> : Either you need to set the exim group, and make sure /var/spool/mail is
> : chmog g+w, and is owned by the appropriate group, or leave it at 777,
> : but also set +t (sticky bit) - this prevents people from deleteing
> : other peoples mailspools.
>
> (but doesn't prevent them from writing to /var/spool/mail/ to begin
> with).
>
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