Re: Syncing multiple IMAP/ user accounts

[Vincent Beffara <vbeffara+ml@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi there,

Hej,

> I'd like to sync a few more IMAP accounts than just mine. At the moment=
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> just see a chance to have each Unix user start the sync on after the ot=
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> r, maybe via a cronjob. Each one starting from his home directory and
> executing an...
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> offlineimap -1 -c .offlineimaprc
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> But I don't want to grant all these users shell access.
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> Is there a way to have -maybe- a daemon or some user with limited right=
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> doing this for all users?
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> Maybe I just missed that option. :-/

(Assuming you are running linux or something similar.)

If you have root access to your machine, you could always make a special=20
user who is a sudoer with no password but can only run offlineimap as=20
whoever he wants - and let _her_ have a crontab entry to do what you=20
want.

* * * * * sudo -u joe offlineimap
* * * * * sudo -u jane offlineimap

(or put that in root's crontab, if you're not too worried).

  /v

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