7 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildropRe: [maildropl] Temporary authenticat...
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CourierJul 14, 2005 9:03 am 
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Subject:Re: [maildropl] Temporary authentication failureActions...
From:Courier (Cour@light-hall.com)
Date:Jul 14, 2005 9:50:00 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

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I thought that "--enable-maildrop-uid=root" accomplished the first option

Only partially. It does set the ownership of the maildrop binary, but does not turn on the setuid and setgid bit. It used to do that, but that was taken out a number of versions ago.

The 2nd option - "setuid root" I don't know how to set that on this distro, so I tried "chown root maildrop" obviously without luck

chown only changes the ownership. chmod changes the permission bits, and every UNIX system in the world does it the same way: chmod u+s

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On with the dunce hat...Thanks for finding that Sam...Like I said - I've been staring at this too long, and am missing some obvious things...

I think the next area I have to look at is master.cf on the postfix side of the world. I set the bit and it now authenticates the user - but I'm calling maildrop wrong per the following. At least I have something to trouble shoot again.

Jul 14 21:39:51 xxxxx postfix/local[5060]: 3E4CC5A02F2: to=<us@foo.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: Missing ', ", or `. /etc/maildroprc(11): Syntax error. )