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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:232 ] dovecot

LinuxSecurity.com: The ACL plugin in dovecot prior to version 1.1.4 treated negative access rights as though they were positive access rights, which allowed attackers to bypass intended access restrictions (CVE-2008-4577).

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DOVEADM-EXEC(1) 						      Dovecot							   DOVEADM-EXEC(1)

NAME
doveadm-exec - easily execute commands from Dovecot's libexec_dir SYNOPSIS
doveadm [-Dv] exec binary [binary arguments] DESCRIPTION
This command allows administrators and local users to simply execute commands from within libexec_dir. So for example a logged in system user could start a pre-authenticated imap session, using the command: doveadm exec imap. An administrator would use the command: doveadm exec imap -u username. OPTIONS
Global doveadm(1) options: -D Enables verbosity and debug messages. -v Enables verbosity, including progress counter. ARGUMENTS
binary the name of an executable located in /usr/libexec/dovecot. binary arguments options and arguments, wich will be passed through to the binary. EXAMPLE
This example demonstrates how to deliver a message from a file to a user's mailbox. doveadm exec dovecot-lda -d user@example.net -f admin@example.net < ~/stuff/welcome.msg REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org>. Information about reporting bugs is avail- able at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html SEE ALSO
doveadm(1), dovecot-lda(1) Dovecot v2.2 2013-08-05 DOVEADM-EXEC(1)