[Mimedefang] local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe

Xiaoyan Ma xma at haas.berkeley.edu
Tue Mar 11 16:58:00 EST 2003


At 03:32 PM 3/11/2003 -0600, Jim McCullars wrote:


>On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Xiaoyan Ma wrote:
>
> >   sm-mta[2774]: [ID 801593 mail.error] h2BINHb9002774: Milter (mimedefang):
> > local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe
> >
> > Here are permissions I have:
> > srwx------   1 defang   defang         0 Mar 11 10:25
> > /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
>
>    That looks OK, but what are the permissions on the parent directory?
>Do /var, /var/spool, or /var/spool/MIMEDefang have group or world write
>permission?
>
>Jim

Thanks for your response. No, they don't have group/world write permission:

# ls -ld /var /var/spool /var/spool/MIMEDefang
drwxr-xr-x  27 root     sys          512 Jan 29 09:31 /var
drwxr-xr-x  10 root     bin          512 Feb  7 10:33 /var/spool
drwx------   5 defang   defang       512 Mar 11 13:53 /var/spool/MIMEDefang

Xiaoyan



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