Re: IMAP4rev1 2000.283 allows access to system files

[full-disclosure () lists netsys com (Ron DuFresne)]

an alternative, if these are pop/imap mail only accounts, is to give the
accounts a shell of /dav/null.  Then they can get e-mail, but, are not
allowed to login or do much if anything else.

Additionally, internal production servers should notbe playing pop/imap
mail roles, at least not for external access.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne


On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Kurt Seifried wrote:

> Uh. This is EXPECTED behaviour, as in "yes, we know about it, it's designed
> to do this, and has been doing this since the dawn of time". If you do not
> like it you can:
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> a) chroot the users to their home dir, which is a REAL pain in the ass if
> their mail spool is in /var/spool/mail or something similar, you will also
> need to copy various library files/etc in.
> b) use a different imap server such as cyrus which uses an internal mail
> store
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