On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote: > NOT want to be able to type the path to another user's directory and see > their mail (or they, mine). My mail folders need to be unreadable by any > other user except me and the mail delivery program.
That is why you integrate the proper security measures into your IMAP daemon - for instance you could have to chroot to the proper user directory so that it cannot access files ouside that area then have it run as not-root so it cannot chroot out. There are many other possible schemes that don't require uids, but they all need special code. Jason
