I can also confirm this, on my own mail server since upgrading to beta1. Dovecot always makes the base_dir world-writable on startup. ----- Forwarded message from Oleg Safiullin <form@pdp-11.org.ru> ----- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:09:17 +0600 From: Oleg Safiullin <form@pdp-11.org.ru> To: brad@openbsd.org Subject: dovecot 1.0beta1 Hi. After update dovecot to 1.0beta1 some strange thing happens -- during startup it says "fixing permissions for /var/dovecot to make it world-readable", but actually it makes it world-writable. Please look at it. WBR //form ----- End forwarded message -----
Timo Sirainen
2006-Jan-22 14:15 UTC
[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0beta1 making base_dir world-writable
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 20:50 -0500, Brad wrote:> I can also confirm this, on my own mail server since upgrading to beta1. > Dovecot always makes the base_dir world-writable on startup.Whops. Fixed in CVS now. Also fixes 0777 base_dir to 0755 again. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060122/4255ce97/attachment.pgp