[Tracker-discuss] file permissions on psf:~roundup/trackers/tracker/*

[Paul Dubois]

I don't know how you have the mail set up but if you use the 'alias' method
then the mail user has to be in roundup user's group.

On 11/23/06, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Izak Burger wrote:
> > Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> >> OK. Shouldn't they be group-writable ? What would happen if I tried to
> >> modify them by mail, i.e. by means of ronudup-mailgw, invoked through
> >> exim or some other MTA ?
> >
> > If an issue is created using the web, it will end up with permissions
> > 644, owned by www-data, group roundup.  That is a problem.  If you later
> > try to modify this file as the roundup user it will fail.  As far as I
> > know roundup-mailgw does not delete or modify files, so it shouldn't be
> > a problem.  But if you run roundup-admin (like you did) it might cause
> > problems (which it did :-) ).
>
> I think at least theoretically roundup-mailgw should be able to do
> *anything* that can be done through the web, too. I'm not sure whether
> there are actual commands embeddable into the mail subject line to
> delete or modify files in the db, but they easily could.
>
> Regards,
>                 Stefan
>
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