From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 17:52:59 CDT

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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:30:33AM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:

> > -- permissions for /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd --
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 2007-08-10 17:38 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
> >
> > -- permissions for /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db --
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 2007-08-10 17:38 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db
> >
> > /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db is up to date.
>
> Okay.

World readable files with clear-text passwords are not usually "Okay".
This won't break use by Postfix, but is not a good idea.

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        Viktor.

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