Safe to set mail dir to user:mail ownership?

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Hi,

I built a server for someone, and she wants to edit the sieve files manually (I’ve already told her this is a bad idea - but she’s insisting!). The mail dir in each folder:

/home/USER/mail

Currently is root:root. Is it safe to set as user:mail ownership? (like all the other files in). Its her own server, and she is the only one who will be logging into it.

Thanks!

Andy

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It is mostlikely being reset when the user rebuilds

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Ah ok NP. I’ve warned her already, but she wants to login as root. Told her it’s not a good idea (she doesn’t know anything server-related, apart from FTP’ing in), and have said I’m taking no responsibility if she buggers stuff up :wink:

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Don’t forget to set the daily backups.

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Thanks. Yes, we have the daily backups and also I use urbackup to backup the /home directory multiple times a day as well. You can never have too many backups! :rofl: