Something else must be wrong with your settings. I have Squirrelmail and Horde IMP running with those permissions for /var/spool/mail (1777) just fine. Individual mailboxes have permissions of 660 in my setup. You may want to read the following: http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#7.10 > After I set: > > # chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail > # ls -ld /var/spool/mail* > drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 4096 Jun 28 09:56 /var/spool/mail > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 20 15:02 /var/spool/mailman > > My SquirrelMail immediately failed and automatically log out with "Login > failure error". Then, I checked the system log, and found the followings: > > Jun 28 09:57:46 morpheus imap(pam_unix)[29850]: authentication failure; > logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=127.0.0.1 user=hongwei > Jun 28 09:57:49 morpheus imapd[29850]: Login failed user=hongwei > auth=hongwei host=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] > Jun 28 09:57:52 morpheus imapd[29850]: Command stream end of file, while > reading line user=hongwei host=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] > Jun 28 09:58:05 morpheus imap(pam_unix)[29856]: authentication failure; > logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=127.0.0.1 user=hongwei > Jun 28 09:58:07 morpheus imapd[29856]: Login failed user=hongwei > auth=hongwei host=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] > Jun 28 09:58:10 morpheus imapd[29856]: Command stream end of file, while > reading line user=hongwei host=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] > > I am afraid that other users will immediately complain to me, so I had to > put it back as before, then I can use my squirrelmail. > > What is wrong? Thanks! > > Hongwei > > > >> drwxrwxrwt root mail >> >> It's because Fedora 1 has a different version of imap than >> 7.3. >> >> Quoting Hongwei Li <hongwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> Thanks! But my rh7.3 box has >>> >>> # ls -ld /var/spool/mail/ >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 08:00 >>> /var/spool/mail/ >>> >>> but never shows any warning message. Is it because rh7.3 >>> is too old? >>> >>> Also, should it be drwxrwxrwt or drwxrwxr-t? should it be >>> >>> drwxrwxrwt root mail >>> >>> or >>> >>> drwxrwxrwt root root? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> > /var/spool/mail should have the following permissions: >>> > drwxrwxrwt (it should have the sticky bit set). >>> > >>> > Quoting Hongwei Li <hongwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> > >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> We have a fc1 box. We have he permissions setting as: >>> >> >>> >> # ls -ld /var/spool/mail >>> >> drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jun 28 08:43 >>> /var/spool/mail >>> >> # ls -ld /tmp >>> >> drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 24576 Jun 28 08:43 /tmp >>> >> >>> >> The LogWatch always shows the warning: >>> >> >>> >> Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must >>> have >>> >> 1777 protection >>> >> >>> >> When a regular user (except root) opens pine to read >>> >> mails, he also sees >>> >> this message at the very beninning for about 1 to 2 >>> >> seconds. As I >>> >> understand, the permission drwxrwxr-x is correct. >>> What >>> >> is wrong? Do I >>> >> need to change the permission on the mail directory? >>> if >>> >> yes, change it to >>> >> what? >>> >> >>> >> Thanks! >>> >> >>> >> Hongwei >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> fedora-list mailing list >>> >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> >> To unsubscribe: >>> >> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging >>> Program. >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > fedora-list mailing list >>> > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> > To unsubscribe: >>> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >>> > >>> >>> >>> -- >>> fedora-list mailing list >>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe: >>> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >>> >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. >> >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >> > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
