[CentOS] SquirrelMail Prefs Deleted
John Hinton
webmaster at ew3d.com
Tue Feb 10 03:38:22 UTC 2009
Sahil Tandon wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, John Hinton wrote:
>
>
>> FYI. I just had all of the squirrelmail prefs for all the users on one
>> of my servers disappear. I have never had anything like this happen ever
>> before. I'm in the process of finding the needle in the haystack of logs
>> to try to get a handle on this. I'm sending this to the list as a heads
>> up. Seems like Squirrelmail is not doing so good here over the last few
>> months.
>>
>
> Please provide evidence before implicating SquirrelMail.
>
>
Right. Sorry. The thing is I looked in the prefs directory and it was
totally empty. I forgot that these files were all owned by apache. The
real trouble was a header injection through a cms. Really nasty of them
to bother with dumping SM prefs. That the worst damage I've found so far
after getting stuff cleaned up.... or sort of cleaned up. Unfortunately,
since I do the standard SM install, the prefs are in the user
directories which are backed up and I hadn't thought to backup SM prefs.
Fortunately, we don't have a lot of users that rely on SM.
I made a bad immediate call. It was done in case others wanted to backup
the prefs in case it was actually SM.
Now to figure out a best way to create new prefs files for the scads of
users on this server. :(
John Hinton
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