Howard Chu: > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > I am trying to understand why group and other permissions are set to 6. > > On some platforms the permission bits on sockets are completely > ignored. The only way to control access is thru the permissions > of the containing directory.
Postfix has to work on a range of operating systems, not just Linux.
And that is why Postfix has restricted access to the public (owner
all+group execute) and private (owner only) directories.
Wietse
