Re: [courier-users] sqwebmail: Transport endpoint is not connected

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Kevin Coyner writes:

> problem. My build was on a debian box so everything came in .deb
> packages, but I believe upstream source downloads might have the same
> problem. Anyway, the process ID's for all courier programs reside in
> /var/run/courier. In my build of courier, the default permissions for
> /var/run/courier were 770 with uid/gid of daemon.daemon. Getting
> sqwebmail to run was solved by ...
>
> chmod 755 /var/run/courier
>
> Indeed, I checked an old email server that has been running
> courier/sqwebmail for a long while now, and its permissions were 755,
> not 770 as in the default build.
>
> FYI there is a bug filed already in the Debian BTS for this.

If /var/run/courier is where authdaemon creates its socket, then this is the
wrong fix. It opens up a security hole. The correct fix is to fix the
permissions on the sqwebmail binary, so that it is setuid root.



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