Prevent remove file with imap

Brenden Conte conteb at rpi.edu
Wed Jun 16 17:13:34 EDT 2004


The patch only makes the pop obey the permissions.  The user can't
change permissions via pop, its not in the protocol - as long as the
user doesn't have admin privileges on his account, he won't be able to
change them via imap either.

-Brenden

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 16:13, sam wrote:
> Brenden Conte wrote:
> 
> >I have a patch still waiting in the wings of the cyrus bugzilla at
> >https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2394.  The patch is
> >against 2.2.3, however it applies against 2.2.5 still (and works, as i'm
> >using it myself).
> >
> >Basically, it makes it so that any imap permissions are also understood
> >and obeyed by the pop side.
> >  
> >
> Will you fix should prevent from user reinstate the 'd' right for themself?
> 
> Thanks
> sam
> 
> >-Brenden
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:50, sam wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Ken Murchison wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>sam wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Dear all,
> >>>>
> >>>>How can I configure cyrus-imap prevent user remove files from the 
> >>>>inbox folder?
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Do you mean prevent them from removing messages?  Why would you want 
> >>>to do this on someone's INBOX?
> >>>
> >>>You should be able to do this by removing their 'd' right, but since 
> >>>users always have the implicit 'a' right, if they are savvy they can 
> >>>reinstate the 'd' right for themselves.  Also note that this won't 
> >>>prevent the POP3 DELE command from working.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Thanks for the info. Do you know how to prevent the POP4 DELE command?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
-- 
Brenden Conte
System Programmer, C&CT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518)276-2540

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