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PROGRAM:

NAME


maildiracl - manage access control lists

SYNOPSIS


maildiracl {-reset} {maildir}

maildiracl {-list} {maildir} {INBOX[.folder]}

maildiracl {-set} {maildir} {INBOX[.folder]} {[-]identifier} {[+/-]rights}

maildiracl {-delete} {maildir} {INBOX[.folder]} {[-]identifier}

maildiracl {-compute} {maildir} {INBOX[.folder]} {identifier...}

DESCRIPTION


maildiracl manages “access control lists” (or ACLs) of the Courier IMAP server maildir
folders. Access control lists are used primarily to provide fine-grained control for
accessing virtual shared folders via IMAP.

Note
The Courier IMAP server server implements two types of shared folders: filesystem
permission-based shared folders, as well as virtual shared folders based on IMAP
access control lists. Use the maildiracl command to set up access control lists for
virtual shared folders. Use the maildirmake(1)[1], command to implement shared folders
based on filesystem permissions.

See the Courier IMAP server documentation for additional information on setting up
virtual shared folders.

ACL overview
ACLs provide a fine-grained mechanism for controlling access to shared folders. ACLs may
be used to specify, for example, that user1 may only open and read the messages in the
folder; and user2 can not only do that, but also delete messages, and create subfolders.

Each folder maintains its own individual access control list, that specifies who can do
what to the folder. An ACL is a list of “identifier” and “rights” pairs. Each “identifier”
and “rights” pair means that an entity called “identifier” (using the UTF-8 character set)
is allowed to do “rights” on this folder. “rights” consists of one or more letters, each
letter signifies a particular action:

a

identifier may modify this folder's ACLs.

c

identifier may create subfolders of this folder (this includes renaming another folder
as this folder's subfolders).

e

identifier may remove deleted messages from this folder.

i

identifier may add messages to this folder (either uploading them one by one, or
copying messages from another folder).

l

identifier may actually see that this folder exists. If identifier does not have the
“l” right on this folder, the folder is effectively invisible to identifier.

r

identifier may open this folder. Note that if identifier knows the name of this
folder, it can open it even if identifier does not the “l” right on this folder.

s

identifier may mark messages in this folder as seen, or unseen.

t

identifier may mark messages in this folder as deleted, or undeleted.

w

identifier may change other status flags of messages in this folder. May also add or
remove custom keywords on individual messages.

x

identifier may delete this folder (which includes renaming this folder as another
mailbox's subfoler.

Negative rights
An ACL entry of “-identifier” and “rights” is called a “negative right”, which
explicitly removes “rights” from “identifier”. More than one “identifier” is usually
used to determine the actual rights someone has for the given folder. The actual
access rights are determined by taking all rights from all applicable identifier, than
subtracting any negative rights, as specified in the following section.

Identifiers
Access rights on a given folder are computed by obtained the rights on the following
identifiers, then subtracting the negative rights on the same identifiers:

owner
The owner of the maildir containing this folder. The maildir's INBOX's ACL
defaults to all rights for its owner. A new folder's ACL is the same as its
parent's ACL. In all cases, trying to remove the “a” right from the owner (either
directly or using a negative right) results in an error.

anyone
This identifier refers literally to every userid. The associated rights (or
negative rights) are always used.

anonymous
This is a synonym from “anyone”.

user=loginid
Rights (or negative rights) for IMAP account “loginid”.

Note
“loginid” is what's logged to syslog after a succesful login. In some
situations “loginid” is not exactly the actual login ID used by the IMAP
client.

group=name
Rights (or negative rights) for account group “name”. Access rights are granted to
an account group as a whole. The account options feature of the Courier
Authentication Library specifies which account belongs to which account group. See
courier-authlib's documentation for more information.

administrators
This is an alias for “group=administrators”. Accounts that are members of an
account group called “administrators” are considered administrative accounts, and
automatically receive all access rights on all accessible folders.

Consider the following access control list:

owner aceilrstwx
anyone lr
user=john w
-user=mary r
administrators aceilrstwx

This access control list specifies that the folder's owner has complete control over
the mailbox (as well as the administrators, which have complete access to every
folder); everyone else can see it and open it, except for “mary” who can see that the
mailbox exists, but can't open it; additionally, “john” can change the status and
keywords of individual messages (but not mark them as deleted/undeleted or
seen/unseen, which requires additional rights).

OPTIONS


maildiracl -reset maildir

This command resets access control lists in maildir which as a path to a maildir. Under
certain conditions, the files where a folder's ACLs are saved may continue to exist after
the folder is removed. The -reset options goes through maildir and removes all stale ACL
files for removed folders.

Note
The Courier IMAP server normally performs this maintenance function automatically. It
is not necessary to run this command under normal conditions.

maildiracl -list maildir folder

This command lists the access control lists set for folder. folder must be either “INBOX”
or “INBOX.folder.subfolder”, which is the same naming convention for the Courier IMAP
server.

maildiracl -set maildir folder identifier rights

Puts identifier (which may begin with a minus sign to specify a negative right) and rights
in folder's access control list. Existing rights for identifier (or identifier) are
replaced by rights unless “rights” begins with “+” or “-”, which modifies the existing
rights by adding or removing from them accordingly. Some examples:

maildiracl -set /home/user1/Maildir INBOX.Sent user=john lr

maildiracl -set /home/user2/Maildir INBOX.Notes anyone -r

maildiracl -set /home/user3/Maildir INBOX.Private -user=tom +r

Note
Observe that the last command revokes the “r” right from “tom”, by adding it as a
negative right.

maildiracl -delete maildir folder identifier

This command removes identifier from folder's access control list, if it exists. Use
“-identifier” to remove negative rights.

maildiracl -compute maildir folder [identifier]+

This command takes a list of one or more identifiers. All access rights for the
identifiers are combined together, then any appropriate negative rights are removed, and
the result is printed on standard output. Use the following procedure to compute access
rights the same way as they are computed by the Courier IMAP server:

maildiracl -compute /home/tom46/Maildir INBOX.Sent owner user=tom46

This command computes access rights “tom46” has on his own folder.

maildiracl -compute /home/john34/Maildir INBOX.Public user=tom46

This command computes access rights “tom46” has on “john34”'s folder.

IRREVOCABLE ACCESS RIGHTS


The owner of the mailbox must always have the “a” amd “l” access rights. The
administrators group must always have all access rights to all folders. Attempts to set
access control lists, that do not include these minimum access rights, will be rejected.

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