On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:02:30PM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
> Andy Wettstein wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:14:26AM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
> >
> >>Andy Wettstein wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello
> >>>
> >>>Is there a way to set the group for a directory that exim creates with
> >>>create_directory? AFAICT, exim creates all directories with group
> >>>ownership of exim_group and there is no other directory group ownership
> >>>setting.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Andy
> >>>
> >>
> >>If we are talking about the appendfile transport, then
> >>group = mail
> >>directory_mode = 750
> >>
> >>will create directories with group mail and group rx permission.
> >>
> >>The group option makes the transport run as that group, so any
> >>files/directories it creates will have that group ownership.
> >
> >
> >This does not work. I have this transport:
> >
> >shared_local_delivery_mbx:
> > driver = appendfile
> > mbx_format = true
> > message_prefix =
> > message_suffix =
> > file = /var/mail/imapshared/$local_part/INBOX
> > delivery_date_add
> > envelope_to_add
> > return_path_add
> > mode = 0660
> > no_mode_fail_narrower
> > directory_mode = 755
> > group = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/mail/shared-mail}}
> >
> >I have shared email get accepted by this router:
> >
> >shared_mail:
> > driver = accept
> > user = imapshared
> > local_parts = lsearch;/etc/mail/shared-mail
> > group = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/mail/shared-mail}}
> > transport = shared_local_delivery_mbx
> >
> >I create a test alias in /etc/mail/shared-mail that looks like this:
> >test: sysadm
> >So the group should by sysadm for everything.
> >
> >I do a delivery to test and here is what I get:
> >
> >[2484]root@florence# ls -la /var/mail/imapshared/test/
> >total 8
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 imapshared mail 512 Aug 12 07:36 .
> >drwxr-xr-x 7 imapshared mail 512 Aug 12 07:36 ..
> >-rw-rw---- 1 imapshared sysadm 3304 Aug 12 07:36 INBOX
> >
> >I use exim-4.41 on FreeBSD 5.2.
> >
> >
>
> If I include the transport you have above on a test system running Fedora
> Core 1 and exim 4.41 it works. The only change I made was to move the
> directory to /var/mail/test, and use different existing user and group (user
> server, group adm). I sent mail to test, with the alias "test: adm" in
> /etc/mail/shared-mail.
>
> The resulting directory structure at /var/mail/test is:
>
> drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Aug 12 16:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 server adm 4096 Aug 12 16:00 ./imapshared
> drwxr-xr-x 2 server adm 4096 Aug 12 16:00 ./imapshared/test
> -rw-rw---- 1 server adm 2806 Aug 12 16:00 ./imapshared/test/INBOX
>
> I suppose it must be a BSD'ism.
After a little more investigation the directories get group owned
by the group of the parent directory. So if I change the group
ownership of imapshared to sysadm all directories under imapshared get
sysadm group owned. I'm not sure how this makes any sense.
>
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> University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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