oss-security - Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations. Request.

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:19:54 +0400
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Russ Thompson <russ@...dbit.com>
Subject: Re: Postfix incorrect permissions on configurations.
 Request.

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

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