I was going to do a little testing with dovecot, trying to set it up in its own zone, when I discovered that the /home directory in the zone doesn't have write permission.
root@dovecot.ds2:/usr/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.15# useradd -g vmail -s /bin/false -d /home/vmail -m vmail UX: useradd: ERROR: Unable to create the home directory: No such file or directory. root@dovecot.ds2:/usr/dovecot/dovecot-2.1.15# mkdir /home/vmail mkdir: Failed to make directory "/home/vmail"; Operation not applicable root@dovecot.ds2:/# ls -al ... dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Feb 27 22:36 home ... root@dovecot.ds2:/# chmod u+w home chmod: WARNING: can't change home Is there some reason for this? You all told me to set up each of my different services in their own zones, so I figured I'd do that with my email server, as well. This seems a bit problematic if we can't add user directories to hold the mail. Or am I taking that too far? SImilarly, I have apache web server set up in a zone. I was planning on adding users to that zone, too, for them to access via ssh to upload their files. I figured they'd need to do that through the zone so they could change their web page file permissions (for scripts, etc.) as necessary. That seems a bit challenging, too, given this new revelation. Would somebody please tell me where my thinking is skewed? I'd really appreciate it. Peter, hieromonk _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
