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I'm having great difficulty attempting to even theorize a solution to the problem we're
having with zmailer and it accessing the .forward file.
Here's the problem:
- User's are able to run the lynxcgi-bin:mail-forward (gforward).
- The mailer does NOT have search or read permissions on the user's home directory.
- Because ZMailer cannot search the directory, it cannot read the .forward that has been
created there. -
Because it cannot read it, it assumes that it does not exist, and proceed's normally. -
Therefore, mail is not
forwarded, (or filtered).
I've made a couple attempts at a solution:
1.Attempt 1
Synopsis: Modify $CS_ROOT/lynxcgi-bin/mail-forward to set $HOME world searchable
when forwarding is invoked.
Result: Working solution, but unacceptable because it leaves user's files
publically readable/browsable.
2.Attempt 2 (on frugal)
Synopsis: Modify CS_ROOT/bin/shell to set umask from 022 to 077.
Modify CS_ROOT/lynxcgi-bin/mail-forward to chmod 644 .forward file when creating
it.
Modify CS_ROOT/lib/newacct-make to chmod 2751 the user's home directory.
Result: Some problems occur, here's some of them
User's Profile.html is created mode 644.
$CS_ROOT/bin/shell takes care of the public_html not being 755, but any files
created in that directory are not world readable.
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I think that if the previous problem with building and installing zmailer is truely
resolved, and we can find a work-around or solution to the problem detailed about, I at
least would be confident enough to call a new release Beta 2.0.
One of things I am finding is blocking me from progressing on this problem is that I do
not know what works on CCN. As far as I can tell, the zmailer runs as root. If this is
true, it doesn't seem like a very good solution, (at least it's one I'd like to avoid).
If anyone has suggestions or questions, please forward them to me!
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James Fifield
<fifield@ug.cs.dal.ca>
CSuite Technical Staff
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