Bug 53920 – relay-ctrl /var/spool/relay-ctrl/allow file permissions are incorrect.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Chris Neeser 2004-06-14 14:56:54 UTC]

When files are put into the /var/spool/relay-ctrl/allow, directory based on IP address they are put in with the permissions of the user who made the pop3 request to the server, so that if anyone else tries to write or read from the file they are denied access, this is what the perms look like:

drwxrwxrwt  2 root      root  272 Jun 14 15:39 .
drwxrwxrwx  3 root      root   96 Jun 14 12:04 ..
-rw-------  1 lkeith    users  12 Jun 14 15:21 220.51.26.28
-rw-------  1 chadk     users  11 Jun 14 15:39 219.173.37.194
-rw-------  1 toms      users  10 Jun 14 15:37 67.114.226.162
-rw-------  1 mminor    users  12 Jun 14 15:38 69.243.222.248
-rw-------  1 dave      users  10 Jun 14 15:39 60.144.192.8
-rw-------  1 gishihara users  15 Jun 14 15:17 62.167.38.175
-rw-------  1 efax1     users  11 Jun 14 15:34 63.167.63.95

In order for me to sort of get relay-ctrl to work I had to do chmod a+s to the relay-ctrl-check command so that it could read the indivual files.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I haven't tried a fresh install but just upgrade to relay-ctrl-3.1.1-r2 and it didn't really help matters any.


Expected Results:  
I expect the individual IP files to be owned by a single user, I haven't found
very much documentation on this so I don't really even know what user it should be.

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2004-12-08 19:26:05 UTC]

The files should come out as mode 666 and owned by the user that they represent. Do you use a weird umask or something?

[Comment 2 Chris Neeser 2004-12-09 07:24:20 UTC]

My umask is set to 22, I believe this is normal.

[Comment 3 Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) 2005-08-07 04:01:39 UTC]

Is this still an issue?