bugtraq - Re: sqwebmail web login

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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:57:04 +1100 (EST)
From: Tim Nelson <sysadmin@...et.com.au>
To: Antonio Messina <messina@...iesistemi.it>
Cc: Marco Marabelli <mm@...t.it>, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com,
	mrsam@...rier-mta.com
Subject: Re: sqwebmail web login


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Antonio Messina wrote:

> > platform:
> > linux 2.4 i386
> > pachages: qmail+sqwebmail+qmailadmin+vpopmail-vchkpw-auth. 
> 
> NOT with FreeBSD 4.5, kernel GENERIC, sqwebmail 3.3.3, vpopmail 5.2
> 
> However, I think it's due to a misconfiguration. Root mailbox does NOT 
> exist in default qmail installation: it's just an alias, not a real 
> valid user. 

	Sqwebmail reads the filesystem directly, so will be doing this 
itself.  It doesn't depend on the qmail setup.  Sqwebmail is part of the 
Courier suite.  While I am using all the other software in the courier 
suite, I'm using SquirrelMail instead of sqwebmail.  Sqwebmail accesses 
the filesystem directly for performance reasons.  But I prefer to keep my 
web server and mail servers separate.  

http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail.html

	So, I place the blame squarely on sqwebmail.  However, I know the 
Courier folks are quite responsive to security issues, so I've included 
MrSam on this message.  

	:)

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Tim Nelson
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