Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:33:35PM -0400, Peter Skensved wrote:
>
> > The guidelines for setting up postfix with dovecot SASL recommends setting
> > the file permissions on /var/spool/postfix/private/auth to 660.
>
> This socket is created by Dovecot.
>
> > Yet all the other sockets in the .../private directory have 666 permissions.
With some socket implementations, socket permission don't work like
file permissions, therefore Postfix relies on directory permissions
for access control and leaves the socket permissions open for the
systems where socket permissions do make a difference.
Wietse
