Re: VIRTUAL - User Permissions and Ownership

On Tue, 24 May 2005 12:57:36 -0700
Postmaster <Postmaster@light-hall.com> wrote:

> I am trying to set up the "Postfix Virtual Doamin Hosting" - 2nd example
> in the HOWTO - and have run into a bit of snag.
>
> I created:
> /var/mail/vhosts/1stdomain.com/username1
> /var/mail/vhosts/2nddomain.com/anotherusername
>
> but I have the error "Permissions denied"
>
> "who" should the owner be of :/var/mail/vhosts/1stdomain.com/username1"
> (it is currently root)
> What "GROUP" should it be
> (I manually changed to to "users")

Whatever is convenient (as long as postfix and your POP/IMAP server agree).

I always use 5000:5000 (without declaring users/groups using those ids.

> What file permissions
> (I have manually used chmod for 664)
>

700 works fine.

> The reason for the 2nd example is so that I do NOT have to declare the
> users on the local (SuSE Linux) box.


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