Admin permissions broken?

[Schmehl, Paul L]

It doesn't hurt to read the documentation.  :-)  If you do read it,
you'll find that the admin account doesn't have the rights (ACL) to
delete mailboxes that it creates.  You would have to set the acls on the
mailbox first to do that.

>From the doc/install-admin-mb.html file:
"Access rights are discussed in detail in the cyradm(1) man pages. Note
that the administrator
   must grant herself create/delete access explicitly before she can
delete a mailbox:

    setaclmailbox <mail_box> <admin_userid> c
    deletemailbox <mail_box>"

So the behavior you are experiencing is by design.  Man cyradm wouldn't
hurt before you go any further.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Project Coordinator
University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
AVIEN Founding Member

-----Original Message-----
From: andy [mailto:news.letters at gmx.de] 
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:32 PM
To: cyrus
Subject: Admin permissions broken?


Hi there,

I did manually create top level folders using an admin account. No the
users do have no write permissions to the folders. So I tryed to delete
them, but even this does not work! Here is some communication I had with
cyrus:

server:~ # cyradm --user cyrus localhost
Please enter your password:
Please enter your password:
IMAP Password:
              localhost.localdomain>
localhost.localdomain> sam test cyrus d

localhost.localdomain> listacl test
anyone lrs
cyrus d

localhost.localdomain> dm test
deletemailbox: Permission denied


Has anybody a good idea on how to solve that? Maybe sassl is not
propperly installed?! However I am always! prompted twice for the same
pw for login. So I do think that something is wrong.

Thank you for any help on that!