Re: [maildropl] maildrop: Unable to change to home directory

[kemas h. <kem...@ra...>]

>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:33 AM, kemas henry 
> <kem...@ra... <mailto:kem...@ra...>> wrote:
>
>     Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>     > kemas henry writes:
>     >
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> what is "maildrop: Unable to change to home directory" error means?
>     >
>     > It means that maildrop cannot set its current directory to the
>     > account's home directory.
>     >
>     >> because the home directory of the user is owned by the user and now
>     >> world readable or writeable.
>     >
>     > Perhaps what you think the home directory isn't the same as what
>     > maildrop thinks it is.
>     >
>
>     please, shed some light on how maildrop works or the home directory as
>     maildrop think.
>     All I know is
>     - maildrop would use the user account id
>     - cd to the account home directory
>     - deliver the message
>     - change quota usage if used
>

>     Leandro Mendes wrote:
>>     With what user maildrop is running as?
>

perhaps root with group mail
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root mail 165272 Mar 12 15:42 /usr/local/courier/bin/maildrop


>>     What's the home directory of this user?
>

I try to run authtest, heres the output
authtest john.doe
Authentication succeeded.

Authenticated: john.doe  (uid 10673, gid 10027)
Home Directory: /home/sdm.rb29
Maildir: (none)
Quota: (none)
Encrypted Password: {MD5}xxx
Cleartext Password: (none)
Options: disablepop3=0,disableimap=1


>>     Is correct the home directory permissions?
>
hopefully yes, the permission is right, I use nscd to cache the user 
info from ldap.
I try to turn off nscd, but nothings change

drwx------  3 john.doe  john.doe 4096 Jun 19 16:47 /home/john.doe/

>>
>>     try to run maildrop by hand (with the user) in verbose mode, to
>>     get all output.
>

maildrop -V 3 -d john.doe maildrop: Changing to /home/john.doe
maildrop: Unable to change to home directory.




regards,