[horde] horde webmail created files permissions problem

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Rolf Deenen <rdeenen at home.nl>:

> Dear list,
>
> First of all let me begin by saying I am sorry that the following  
> problem-description is so long. I have been unable to make it  
> shorter without leaving possible important details out...
>
> About a month ago I updated my Debian home-server from Etch to Lenny  
> (so, debian version 4 to debian version 5). I exported all data like  
> contacts, notes ,etc of my previous horde installation (I am the  
> only user) since I went from Postgresql to MySQL. This because of  
> the abbundancy software that supports MySQL. Then I did a complete  
> clean install of Horde groupware webmail-edition. I downloaded and  
> installed version 1.2.3 . Most of it runs OK after configuring but i  
> have some strange issues whenever up- or downloading files is  
> happening.
>
> 1.) FILES ON LOCAL SYSTEM AS VFS DOESN'T WORK
> When I set the Virtual File Storage to "Files on the local system",  
> point it at a specified directory (/home/www/hordevfs) and make sure  
> the webserver can access this directory I am unable to attach files  
> to an e-mail. I get an error: "Unable to create VFS directory." .  
> When I upload a file I watch the filesystem (with the utility  
> "iwatch") . I see nothing happens in the directory specified in the  
> config, but I do some something happening in /tmp (file created and  
> deleted). If I set the Virtual File Storage to "SQL" the problem  
> disappears. The apache2 webserver runs as the user "www-data",  
> member of the group "www-data".
>
> drwxrwx---  3 www-data www-data 4096 2009-07-14 14:04 hordevfs
>
> I noticed a directory /home/www/hordevfs/.horde , which i did not  
> create, but which apparently horde was able to create:
>
> d--------- 2 www-data www-data 4096 2009-07-14 14:04 .horde

Horde is trying to create files/directories inside this .horde  
directory and fails, obviously because of the wrong permissions of  
that directory.
You probably have the umask setting in the Horde configuration wrong,  
so that this directory was created with the wrong perms.

All your other issues sound like they stem from the same problem.

Jan.

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