[Dovecot] A Couple Of Issues (APOP Causes Auth SIGSEGV, Umask Setting Ineffective)

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

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Hi,

I'm very happy with Dovecot and wish the best for its continued 
development.  It's a true testament to brilliant componentised design and 
Unix philosophy.  Configuration made easy because of the way the file is 
parsed and a single point of startup make it ridiculously straightforward 
(and lovely) to administer.  But of course, we all already know this ...

I'm sorry that I can't provide traces at the moment, I'm working from an 
optimised set of binaries.  (-O3 -march=i586 -fomit-frame-pointer)  GCC 
3.4.4, Gentoo X86 2005.0, Linux 2.6.13, Glibc 2.6.5.  Pegasus Mail 4.30B1 
is the client on Win32.  Dovecot is still Alpha2 (I will upgrade when 
Gentoo has updated their ebuild).  Of course if you advise I'll look at 
rebuilding newer versions or patched versions with(out) debug symbols.

1.  When I attempt APOP login of any variety on the POP3 server auth dies 
with signal 11.  passwd-file is of course listed as a password database, 
alongside shadow.  I get back "-ERR Internal authentication failure - 
please try again later." or something like this and all subsequent 
authentication in that session won't work (of course, auth is dead).  The 
password entry is in /etc/dovecot.secrets (perms=0700,uid=0,gid=0) and 
looks like:
username:{PLAIN}cleartextpassword

2.  Umask setting gone strange.  I set it, per example comment, to "7077" 
rather than default of 0077 (just to be precise...).  When directories are 
subsequently created, user owning it doesn't even get read/write 
permissions (just x) and group gets rw but not x!  It has not even to do 
with my system umask (022) set by login.  I've set it to 0000 for now in 
dovecot (/etc/skel has .mail put in people's homedirs with 0700, so 
there's no worry, but of course I'd like to see that one fixed).

If you need more info please let me know.  Hope this is enough.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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