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author | Daichi GOTO <daichi@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-06-30 14:06:35 +0000 |
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committer | Daichi GOTO <daichi@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-06-30 14:06:35 +0000 |
commit | 23b1777850d1311d606eaea323eb2717bb76a27d (patch) | |
tree | d665253e0839ce5adfe57165fada534e97792017 /mail/dovecot-devel/files | |
parent | Add xmlcatmgr 0.2, SGML/XML catalog manager. (diff) |
mail/dovecot 0.99.10
o Synchronise README.FreeBSD with current reality.
o Improve security a little by adding a 'dovecot-auth'
user and group.
PR: 53875
Submitted by: Dominic Marks <dominic.marks@btinternet.com> (maintainer)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=83900
Diffstat (limited to 'mail/dovecot-devel/files')
-rw-r--r-- | mail/dovecot-devel/files/README.FreeBSD | 48 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | mail/dovecot-devel/files/patch-dovecot-example.conf | 6 |
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mail/dovecot-devel/files/README.FreeBSD b/mail/dovecot-devel/files/README.FreeBSD index 093fdf57ea81..0ca49a31021c 100644 --- a/mail/dovecot-devel/files/README.FreeBSD +++ b/mail/dovecot-devel/files/README.FreeBSD @@ -4,13 +4,38 @@ # $FreeBSD$ # - o Dovecot currently will not allow users with a user or group id of 0 - to login. Because of this you will not be able to open root's - mailbox, or any of the mailboxes of users in the wheel group. This is - intended as a security feature, and isn't an issue on Linux because - the concept of wheel is not enforced by GNU su. +-> 2003/06/28 (NEW) - + 2003/04/15 + o The authentication mechanism is different on FreeBSD 4 and 5. + For the default configuration set the following variables in + your dovecot.conf according to your version of FreeBSD. + + + FreeBSD 4 (DEFAULT) + + auth_passdb = passwd + auth_user = dovecot-auth + + + FreeBSD 5 + + auth_passdb = pam * + auth_user = root + +-> 2003/04/15 + + o Dovecot will not allow users with a user or group id of 0 to + login. Because of this you will not be able to open root's + mailbox, or any of the mailboxes of users in the wheel group. + + + 2003/06/28 (NEW) + Dovecot now has four configuration variables which allow you to + set the high and low boundaries for acceptable user and group ids. + You still can not login to root's mailbox with Dovecot however. + The default configuration which comes with the port is now + configured to accept connections from users in the wheel group, + my patch which added the allow_zero_gid variable below has been + removed. Update your configurations to match. + + + 2003/04/15 (DEPRECIATED) It is now possible to change this behavior to allow wheel users to check their mailboxes with Dovecot. Add the following line to your dovecot.conf: @@ -48,11 +73,14 @@ The variables you will want to set in dovecot.conf to allow a SSL secured POP3 and IMAP service are: - + protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s - + ssl_disable = no + protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s + ssl_disable = no You may wish to also change the following variables to reflect the location of SSL certificates on your system. - + ssl_cert_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/certs/imapd.pem - + ssl_key_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/private/imapd.pem + ssl_cert_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/certs/imapd.pem + ssl_key_file = /var/dovecot/ssl/private/imapd.pem + +Thanks, +Dominic Marks <dominic.marks@btinternet.com> diff --git a/mail/dovecot-devel/files/patch-dovecot-example.conf b/mail/dovecot-devel/files/patch-dovecot-example.conf index 27f2883a551a..faf7e730cbf2 100644 --- a/mail/dovecot-devel/files/patch-dovecot-example.conf +++ b/mail/dovecot-devel/files/patch-dovecot-example.conf @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- dovecot-example.conf.orig Thu Jun 26 17:11:06 2003 -+++ dovecot-example.conf Thu Jun 26 22:36:08 2003 ++++ dovecot-example.conf Sat Jun 28 14:45:41 2003 @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ # --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ # Number of login processes to create. If login_process_per_user is # yes, this is the number of extra processes waiting for users to log in. -#login_processes_count = 3 -+login_processes_count = 1 ++#login_processes_count = 1 # Maximum number of extra login processes to create. The extra process count # usually stays at login_processes_count, but when multiple users start logging @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ # password databases, nothing else. Only shadow and pam authentication # requires roots, so use something else if possible. -auth_user = root -+auth_user = dovecot ++auth_user = dovecot-auth # Directory where to chroot the process. Most authentication backends don't # work if this is set, and there's no point chrooting if auth_user is root. |