>>> Might it not be easier to store these and other user specific files >>> in the users home dir to eliminate this problem? >> >> um... you want to give a web application permission to write to $HOME >> >> Well, yeah, THAT sound like a great idea. > > how the hell do you think you create extra folders... the server hardware > doesnt say oh he wants directory deadbeat so lets create it.. SM creates > initiates its creation, and that can be expanded to create what is needed. SquirrelMail doesn't create the folders - it tells the IMAP server to create them. That means that the web server doesn't need to have access to the $HOME directories. The IMAP server need that access though. >> Maybe you should look at how you delete users and fix that procedure >> so that squirrelmail data files are part of the deletion. > > maybe i shouldnt have to rewrite the unix userdel binary just so it > removes files another program creates and stores willy nilly. You don't have to rewrite the binary. Write a wrapper script instead. I'm using Debian, and even though "/usr/sbin/userdel" is a binary, "/usr/sbin/deluser" is a Perl script. Even if you don't want to modifiy any of those two, write your own bash script wrapper to perform the deletions not carried out by userdel an deluser. Sincerely, Fredrik Sincerely, Fredrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
