2017-07-13



Archivemail is a tool to extract old messages from mboxes and put
them  in  a separate mbox, which it gzips to save space. I use it
every once in a while.

Today I wanted to run it as root on the mbox of a user. It failed
with:  ``'bob' is owned by someone else!''. Sure it it, but I was
root.

As the manpage didn't help, I took a look into code of the python
script and patched it:

     --- /usr/bin/archivemail        2011-07-10 15:57:42.000000000 +0200
     +++ /usr/local/bin/archivemail  2017-07-13 20:37:45.147551554 +0200
     @@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@
              except OSError, e:
                  user_error(str(e))
              else:
     -            if fuid != os.getuid():
     +            if fuid != os.getuid() and os.getuid() != 0:
                      user_error("'%s' is owned by someone else!" % mailbox_name)

          old_temp_dir = tempfile.tempdir




http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>