Dovecot as LDA from within exim -- config permissions.

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2008-04-27 Fabio Tranchitella <kobold at kobold.it> wrote:
> * 2008-04-27 07:10, Karl Schmidt wrote:
>> If one enables dovecot to act as the LDA in exim, there is a need to 
>> change the permissions of dovecot.conf.

>> I've done it as outlined here in the bottom :

>> http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/IMAP#Using_dovecot_as_the_LDA

>> I'm not sure if this is the most secure way to do it or not.

> Setting dovecot.conf as root:dovecot mode 0640 seems reasonable to me; any
> better idea? Otherwise I'll apply the change with the next upload.

Hello,
is there a reason why dovecot.conf is not 0644 root:root like any
other configuration file? It does not contain passwords usually.

cu andreas
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