> On 10/30/10, Michael Scheidell wrote:
>> On 10/30/10 12:12 PM, Gary V wrote:
>>> Got it. File permissions for amavisd.conf (or for Debian '50-user' or
>>> other file) cannot be set to 0600 or 0640; they must be set to at
>>> least 0644 which means that SQL passwords cannot be hidden from prying
>>> eyes.
>> what about owned by the amavisd user?
>> (that is what happens, ) you chg owner when starting and that owner
>> needs to be able to read all the files.
>>
>
> According to: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/INSTALL.txt
>
> chown root:amavis /etc/amavisd.conf
> chmod 640 /etc/amavisd.conf
>
> Yeah, that works. Thanks Michael. For previous versions of
> amavisd-new, package maintainers that I've seen so far have it set to
> 0644 and root:root. Hopefully they will make the change (or suffer a
> bug report).
>

Mark, may I assume that you will consider a note in RELEASE NOTES or
possibly even some code to check for and log incompatible
ownership/permissions?

-- 
Gary V

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