On 25/02/16 08:20 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Ralf Hildebrandt <r...@sys4.de>:
* Jack Bates <vgn...@nottheoilrig.com>:
LOCAL(8) DELIVERY RIGHTS says: "Deliveries to external files and
external commands are made with the rights of the receiving user on
whose behalf the delivery is made."
So I put "nottheoilrig: /mnt/nottheoilrig/" in /etc/aliases (alias_maps)
thinking mail for user nottheoilrig would be delivered to
/mnt/nottheoilrig/ as UID nottheoilrig.
Who is the owner of /etc/aliases* ?
In the absence of a user context, the local(8) daemon uses the owner
rights of the :include: file or alias database. When those files are
owned by the superuser, delivery is made with the rights specified
with the default_privs configuration parameter.
That's probably what you're seeing.
Make a sep. alaias file, make it owned by nottheoilrig and it should
work.
Hmmm ... That is what's happening, but why's there no user context?
I expected the first case ("the rights of the receiving user on whose
behalf the delivery is made") vs. the second ("the absence of a user
context").
