Bug 380523 – vchkuser-0.4.ebuild set group nofiles for vchkuser-binary -> vchkuser can't read /etc/vpopmail.conf

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Richard Hering 2011-08-24 17:04:43 UTC]

after emerging vpopmail and vchkuser the plugin doesn't work:

vmysql: can't read settings from /var/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql
segfault

the restrictive rights for /etc/vpopmail.mysql set the vpopmail-5.4.33.ebuild

solution: chgrp vpopmail /var/qmail/plugins/vchkuser

then the plugin run fine

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Richard Hering 2011-08-24 17:05:52 UTC]

Diff for the vchkuser-0.4.ebuild

39c39
< 	fowners vpopmail:vpopmail "${QMAIL_HOME}"/plugins/vchkuser
---
> 	fowners vpopmail:nofiles "${QMAIL_HOME}"/plugins/vchkuser

[Comment 2 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2011-08-24 17:58:23 UTC]

can you please verify that changing the group also works with vpopmail-5.4.30-r1?

[Comment 3 Richard Hering 2011-08-24 21:29:42 UTC]

sry, i was too fast. change group will have this effect:

3/6.2/0.12, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host ****.****.**[***.***.***.***] said: 451 qmail-spp failure: plugins/vchkuser: can't execute (#4.3.0) (in reply to RCPT TO command))

local test gone fine as root

i did now a chmod o+r /etc/vpopmail.conf to get the plugin working. don't know how to set the rights of /var/qmail/plugins/vchkuser to get it working with vpopmail.conf without readrights for other. any hints?

[Comment 4 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2012-01-29 12:50:02 UTC]

i just realized that you are using mysql with vpopmail, which causes all sorts of permission problems. i'm afraid vchkuser is not supported without relaxing permissions as you did it. it was never tested against a mysql setup in the first place ...