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Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request.
From: Russ Thompson <russ () wildbit com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:08:20 -0400
Postfix is setting the following permissions by default on Debian Squeeze. I'm seeing roughly the same on RHEL/CentOS 6.x, this appears to be a requirement of "sendmail.postfix" 0755 /etc/postfix 0644 /etc/postfix/* 0755 /etc/postfix-script 0755 /etc/post-install Which allows all users to execute these scripts and read configurations. Setting to tighter/more typical permissions (i.e 640) results in: postfix/sendmail[21007]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: Permission denied Thanks - Russ
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- Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request. Russ Thompson (Apr 09)
- Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request. Michael Tokarev (Apr 09)
- Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request. Russ Thompson (Apr 09)
- Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request. Michael Tokarev (Apr 09)
- Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request. Russ Thompson (Apr 09)
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- Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request. Mike (Apr 09)
- Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request. Michael Tokarev (Apr 09)