> Thanx, I understand what you mean, but I'm also supposed to stop and start > the same deamon > from this user again, manually, without su. > I already solved the sudo problem, by wrapping the master launch inside a > shell that will > set the environment for it, and infact it does. > What happens is later, when master forks and change user. > Why is it again loosing my environment? That's really interesting because in my tests it seems to have worked. Could you show us "strings /proc/<PID of master>/environ" and "strings /proc/<PID of imapd>/environ"? BTW, are you running Linux or another *X? Simon > I just want the binaries to override system libs with mine :) > (of course I could set system environemnt inside master profile or > elsewhere, but this is not what I want to do. I can't touch any root > system behaviour) > Thanx again :) > Gabriele. > -= Mail sent through WebTop2 =- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Da: Clement Hermann (nodens) > A: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Data: 3 novembre 2010 20.59.53 CET > Oggetto: Re: Running Cyrus Imap under a different user > Le 03/11/2010 18:03, Gabriele Bulfon a écrit : > Thanx for the quick reply ;) > Yes, environment is correctly exported. > Maybe there is something I can tell to Linux so that it gives my > environement to anyone > changing user to myuser? > You are not supposed to use sudo to do this. The correct way is to login > as root (or change identity via su -, or let init run the init script > for you at startup), and launch the init script to start cyrus master, > which will drop privileges when forking to child processes (imapd, > pop3d, etc). > sudo *will* remove some environment variables, as a security mesure. > It could be that the best way to achieve what you want is to modify an > existing binary package of cyrus imapd for your distribution, modifiying > only the user-related configure options and configuration scripts. > Cheers, > -- > Clement Hermann (nodens) > - "L'air pur ? c'est pas en RL, ça ? c'est pas hors charte ?" > Jean in L'Histoire des Pingouins, http://tnemeth.free.fr/fmbl/linuxsf/ > Vous trouverez ma clef publique sur le serveur public pgp.mit.edu. > Please find my public key on the public keyserver pgp.mit.edu. > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ > List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
