Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request.

[Michael Tokarev <mjt () tls msk ru>]

09.04.2013 22:08, Russ Thompson wrote:
> 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

That's all nice, but can you elaborate a bit -- what is wrong
with that?  Which request do you have?  What it has to do with
oss-security?

Thanks,

/mjt