Cyrus reviews
Bron Gondwana
brong at fastmail.fm
Tue Jan 24 02:05:55 EST 2012
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:54:12PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012, at 07:25 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:49:52PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote:
> > > I've been told I should do reviews more openly. Ok, here goes.
> > >
> > > commit "rename: ensure user owns both source and dest for Bug #3586 workaround"
> > >
> > > Ok, but why?
> >
> > CMU had somebody issue "rename $sharedroot INBOX.Trash". Since they
> > had no permissions on $sharedroot, the lower level returns
> > IMAP_MAILBOX_NONEXISTENT. Since "submailboxes" are done as admin,
> > there were no ACL checks. It was only the quota which stopped their
> > entire shared heirarchy being renamed under INBOX.Trash of one user.
>
> Gah! Still, checking for the same user is a rather ugly hack when what we
> actually want is to do an ACL check.
We're planning to do that eventually. Meanwhile, we'd rather not leave
everyone vulnerable (FM included) for too long.
I'll be doing a 2.4.14 soon.
Bron.
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