[Mimedefang] local socket unsafe

[Jeff Rife]

On 2 Jul 2004 at 11:48, Adam Lanier wrote:

> Under what conditions is the following error generated:
> 
>   Milter (mimedefang): local socket name
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock unsafe
> 
> I had thought (perhaps naively) that this was caused by incorrect
> permissions on the socket.  Are there other causes as well?

Yes.  The latest sendmails track back the directory permissions all the 
way up to the root.

So all of the following must not be group-writable (and, of course, not 
world-writable, but that's rarely the problem):
  /
  /var
  /var/spool
  /var/spool/MIMEDefang


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