Re: [maildropl] per-user uid & ldap

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Petri Riihikallio wrote:
>> By enabling DEGUN_LOGIN (and using telnet to login trough IMAP) I could
>> verify that all the necessary information is returned from the LDAP 
>> server including the UID/GID.
>
> What was the value returned for "HOMEDIR" in this test case?
>
>> By using "su mail" I verified that I could read a users mailbox (owned
>> by the user) so this is working fine,
>> but maildrop still gives the error "Unable to change to home directory".
>> I don't really understand this as maildrop
>> is owned by root and setuid, so it should be able to change to the
>> homedir either as root or mail.
>
> If the path returned for HOMEDIR doesn't exist even root or mail won't 
> be able to change to it, never mind the permissions.
Of course the correct HOMEDIR value was returned from the LDAP server, 
so that was not a problem.
When testing with IMAP it gave the same error: "chdir([path]) failed!!"

Thanks,
Adam