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If a user doesn't have a ~/mail directory and logs in, the directory is created for them. However, it is created with insecure permissions, 0770 (full group access). The problem is this bit in src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c: #define CREATE_MODE 0770 /* umask() should limit it more */ The code then uses CREATE_MODE as an argument to mkdir_parents(), but mkdir_parents() overrides the umask setting and forces the requested permissions. There's no way to override this except to change the source code. It looks like the same thing is in...

Hi... I'm running Samba 2.2.8 with a 'homes' directive to auto mount homedirectories upon login. I'm using the create_mode and directory_mode of 600 and 700 so only owner has perms for created files. There is a group of about 40 accounts that need this instead set to read/write for them and read only for world (i.e. 604 and 705). Is there some way to do this based on the user logging in but still using the hom...

...-storage.c in src/lib-storage/index/mbox to call "access" to do this.... *** src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c.orig Tue Apr 15 14:04:02 2003 --- src/lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-storage.c Wed May 14 16:04:39 2003 *************** *** 38,44 **** p++; } ! if (mkdir(dir, CREATE_MODE) < 0 && errno != EEXIST) { t_pop(); return -1; } --- 38,44 ---- p++; } ! if ( (access(dir,F_OK) != 0) && mkdir(dir, CREATE_MODE) < 0 && errno != EEXIST) { t_pop(); return -1; } - - - (Could also remove the && errno ==...

Hi, I'm seeing strange permissions when using an email client to create a new sub folder in a shared folder. This is dovecot-1.0test61 I have a directory /data/mail/shared owner=root group=shared permissions=2770 I have a file /data/mail/shared/dovecot-shared owner=root group-shared permissions=2660 User fred in in group shared (in /etc/group) My understanding