[Mimedefang] Patch: set rw-rw---- (0660) on mimedefang.sock

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Tue Dec 6 16:16:10 EST 2011


On 12/5/11 1:26 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:54:19 -0700
> Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, without the patch, the socket is being created as 0750 on
>> Fedora.  So, "yes", it's necessary. :-)
> 
> The culprits seem to be explicit umask() calls in mimedefang.c and
> mimedefang-multiplexor.c.  Those should probably go away or at the very
> least be set to 002 for people who want to allow group-write permission.
> I will look at doing that.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.

Ok, please let me know when you decide.

I've filed a downstream bug for Fedora/Redhat to track this issue.

Thanks,

-Philip




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