Re: What's wrong with the permissions?

[Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>]

On Mon Mar 01, 2010 at 23:11:50 +0100, Jack Knowlton wrote:

> dsrv:~# ls -alh /var/mail/virtual/domain.com/jo0atj50/
> total 0
> drwxrwsrwx 5 vmail vmail 120 2010-03-01 21:16 .
> drwx--S--- 3 vmail vmail  72 2010-03-01 21:16 ..
> drwxrwsrwx 2 vmail vmail  48 2010-03-01 21:16 cur
> drwxrwsrwx 2 vmail vmail 320 2010-03-01 22:36 new
> drwxrwsrwx 2 vmail vmail  48 2010-03-01 22:36 tmp
>
> dsrv:~# id www-data
> uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data),5000(vmail)
>
> Yet when Apache2 tries to _read_ a Maildir file, it always fails. What am
> I doing wrong?

  Probably the permissions of /var/mail, or one other directory
 higher up the chain are too strict.

  I suggest you become the www-data user and explore.  Execute something
 like this as root:

    su - www-data -s /bin/sh


  Then try to change to the appropriate directory and cat one of the
 mail files.

Steve
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