Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders
On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:38:14 -0500
"dman" <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
> | I had my home directory o-r but sometimes certain programs could not
> | read my user config files, so I had to make my /home/user directory
> | o+r I had this problem with Procmail after installing Cyrus; it
> | could not read my ~/.procmailrc
>
> Was cyrus running as root or as your UID? How does cyrus look for the
> file? (probably requires a look at the source) If it tries to list
> the directory and then search that list for interesting stuff, then it
> would need to be readable. I don't know what stat() requires, but it
> probably doesn't need to read the directory. (IIRC stat() is often
> used to check the existance of a file before opening it) Shell-like
> globbing won't work because that requires listing (reading) the
> directory. I would also expect procmail to be run as your UID or else
> it's a security hole.
I thought perhaps procmail was no longer running as my UID but I could be wrong. I have made some progress today.
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Andrew
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