Bug#1000960: Wrong permissions after fresh install

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 01:36:52PM +0000, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> /etc/exim4/passwd.client
> 2021-12-01 09:37:02 1msM2w-0000kF-2M failed to expand "<; ${if exists{/etc/exim4/passwd.client} {${lookup{$host}nwildlsearch{/etc/exim4/passwd.client}{$host_address}}}{} }" while checking a list: failed to open /etc/exim4/passwd.client for linear search: Permission denied (euid=107 egid=111)

What are uid 107 and gid 111 on the affected system? Are there
dpkg-statoverrides present in the system?

The maintainer scripts do only chown to Debian-exim, in the alphabetic
representation.

> The same error on /var/log/exim4/mainlog.

The log gets created by exim proper. This having the wrong user/group
means something "deeper".

Greetings
Marc

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