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Re: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to Courier authdaemond: Permission denied [SOLVED]

From: AlxFrag (alxfraggmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 04:55:45 CST


mouss wrote:
> AlxFrag wrote:
>>> if courier is suid, it can access any file.
>> The solution to this problem was:
>>
>> |chmod o+x /usr/local/var/spool/authdaemon
>
> it may be safer to play on groups instead of opening the directory to
> every user (including nobody) on the machine.
You're right. I changed the permissions using chmod 770 authdaemon so as
all members in the group "root" can access the socket.
I put user "postfix" in the group "root" but it doesn't work :(