> All of our users (bar sysadmins) cannot generate outbound TCP traffic, so
> they cannot get mail from other mail servers unless the provider has sort
> of web based frontend onto thier boxes. A ideal way for them to retrieve
> mail is to use fetchmail but they can't get to the mail server.
> I've written a script which basically goes thru everyones home dirs and if
> it finds a .fetchmailrc file, executes it and delivers mail to them. It
> works grand, the problem is fetchmail's internal security. You must own
> the .fetchmailrc and it's permissions cannot be greater than 0600.
> So fetchmail is barfing when I try to run it my script as another user....
>> [root at hoth coding]# ./run_fetchmail.pl
> File /home/founders/dburke/.fetchmailrc must be owned by you.
>> Is there any way to tell fetchmail not to be so fussy about file
> permissions ? Or will I have to grab the source and make changes
> there?
Use su. For each user with a .fetchmailrc:
su - <user> -c 'fetchmail'
Kenn
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