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...d.dovecot.filter" extension to call some shell scripts. These scrips creates some temporary files. Strange thing: whent sieve is called via dovecot-lda - these files are created by user "kjonca" when sieve is called via lmtp - these files are created by root. Is there any way to drop privilleges where lmtp passing messages to sieve? KJ -- http://wolnelektury.pl/wesprzyj/teraz/

Hi guys, I'm searching for a way to have root privileges momentarily like on ubuntu with the sudo <user> <command> I tried su - <command> and su -l root <command> on my CentOS server but it doesn't work how should I do ? sorry for the disturbance I'm new in RH Linux distro -- Cordialement, / Greetings, Georghy FUSCO

I've just installed WINE on my SUSE Enterprise Server 11. I'm trying to install Windows WM I on WINE. I downloaded the file "wmicore.exe" for NT 4.0 and I used WINE to install it. First time it hangs when it's initializing the repositories. After that when I tried to install it again It didn't hang but Generated an error message from WINE saying that I don't have

Hi, I am using open source Alfresco( alfresco.com ), written in java, which has own code for FTP, CIFS (running on tomcat apache and java). I need to run tomcat5 as root in order to achieve that alfresco will bind ftp cifs on privileged ports (21 , 135 .). I am wondering, it is possible to allow user to bind on some privilleged port. Like having whole alfresco running under user alfresco and

Guys, I've been using samba PDC with LDAP backend for about 2 years now, and they're working just fine. All this time, each time I join a new computer (PC with win XP Pro, Me, win98), I use the root account and its samba password. The problem is, I can use the root to login into the domain too, which something I don't like. If i used the parameter "invalid users = root" via

i changed ip to my server and then i cant connect anymore using _NT authentication this the error i got from the log file: [root@server samba]# tail -f log.luca [1999/08/27 19:07:05, 0] passdb/smbpassfile.c:trust_get_passwd(294) domain_client_validate: unable to read the machine account password for machine SERVER in domain SATORI. [1999/08/27 19:07:05, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(528)

Hello, dear colleagues using SAMBA. Who could possibly tell me what I am missing in order to make my SAMBA printer share visible on the windows network( i.e., accessing it from a MS Windows machine's explorer, for example )? It is SAMBA 3.0.23 on Linux 2.4.33 machine(originally RedHat 7.3. based, but so much upgraded, even to GLIBC-2.3.6). here are the linked libraries:

Hi- I applied the privsep patch to Tru64 5.1A openssh 3.4p1 and it *almost* works. I get in from the client side and xauth is run, but in the meantime the server side disconnects. Running sshd in debug mode level 3 gives the following output: . . . debug1: session_input_channel_req: session 0 req shell debug1: fd 5 setting TCP_NODELAY debug1: channel 0: rfd 13

We installed openssh 3.1p1 on our Solaris 2.8 machine using gcc 2.95.2. During the installation, we modified ssh_config and sshd_config to enable X11 and agent forwarding. In sshd_config, we changed the following line to read: X11Forwarding yes In ssh_config, we changed the following two lines to read: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes Both files are set to permission readable