Re: [webmin-l] privacy question

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Have you tried setting mode 711 instead? That allows anyone to chdir to the directory, but not list it ..<br /><br />=A0- Jamie<br /><br />On 31/Jul/2006 10:09 Russ Ferriday wrote ..
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<div>For either of the chmod versions, I get the following in /var/log/maillog</div><div><br class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder" /></div><div>Jul 31 16:37:12 air660 dovecot: chdir(/home/topia/homes/russf) failed with uid 509: Permission denied</div><div>Jul 31 16:37:12 air660 imap-login: Login: russf.topia [::ffff:86.128.111.255]</div><div>Jul 31 16:37:12 air660 dovecot: child 25628 (imap) returned error 89</div><div><br class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder" /></div><div>Bear in mind my original problem, also. Users on virtual hosts, can by default read other users' homes, because permissions in general are 755.</div><div><br class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder" /></div><div>Thanks for looking at this.</div><div><br class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder" /></div><div>--r</div><br /><div><div>On 31 Jul 2006, at 17:32, Jamie Cameron wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline" /><blockquote type=3D"cite"> On 31/Jul/2006 08:34 Russ Ferriday wrote .. <blockquote type=3D"cite"> <div><br 
 class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder" /></div>Dovecot does not run as soon as I do either of<div>   chmod o-rx /home/&lt;virtdomain&gt;</div><div>or</div><div><div><div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant:
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  way of preventing a virt domain user being able to see the data of another virt domain user?</span></font></div><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br /></div></div></blockquote>That is quite surprising, as Dovecot usually runs with the permissions of the user<br />who is logged in via IMAP or POP3. What exact error message are you getting from it?<br /><br /> - Jamie<br /><br /></blockquote></div><div><span style=3D"border-collapse: separate; -x-border-x-spacing: 0px; -x-border-y-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=3D"Apple-style-span"><span style=3D"border-collapse: separate; -x-border-x-spacing: 0px; -x-border-y-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10px; font-
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