I dont want to run qmaild as vpopmail user, with the correct permissions this should work i dont see why it wouldnt.
-- ~Shaun "Clayton Weise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If it's the same smtp auth patch I use > (http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/) then I had to set my > qmail-smtpd process to run as the vpopmail user and not qmaild. It's in > the FAQ :). > > Shaun wrote: > > > I have kind of a custom setup here. I'm trying to get smtp-auth to work and > > i noticed that the site says to give suid perms to vchkpw. I assume this is > > because vchkpw needs permission to read the vpasswd files. Mine is running > > as qmaild, and when i su to qmaild i can cat the vpasswd and vpasswd.cdb > > file so i it has read access to those files. my question is what could be > > wrong! what else does it need read perms too... i must be missing somthing. > > > > ## My Setup > > The qmail setup is pretty much straight from lwq, qmaild(501) is the user > > and nofiles(500) is the group for the process below > > > > qmaild 4900 0.0 0.0 3148 492 ? S 16:38 0:00 | | \_ > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 501 -g > > 500 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd hostname.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw > > /bin/true > > > > /home/user1 is 0711 and user1.nofiles > > /home/user1/domains is 0711 and user1.nofiles > > /home/user1/domains/user1.domain.com is 0711 and user1.nofiles > > /home/user1/domains/user1.domain.com/vpasswd is 0640 and user1.nofiles > > /home/user1/domains/user1.domain.com/vpasswd.cdb is 0640 and user1.nofiles > > > > su to qmaild and i can cat both /home/user1/domains/user1.domain.com/vpasswd > > and /home/user1/domains/user1.domain.com/vpasswd.cdb > > > > When running vchkpw as qmaild auth always fails, strace doesnt show me any > > permissions errors... > > > > -- > > ~Shaun > > > > > > >
