[Dovecot] permissions warning on OpenBSD 3.9

Brad brad at comstyle.com
Tue Aug 1 11:04:06 EEST 2006


On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:49:38AM -0500, J Moore wrote:
> At startup I get the following warning:
> "Warning: Fixing permissions of /var/dovecot to be world-readable."
> 
> Q: Is this something that I can/should fix, or can it be safely ignored?
> 
> Thnx,
> J

When Dovecot prints this message it has corrected the issue already.
The OpenBSD port was creating /var/doveocot with permissions of 0700
instead of 0755, as it should be. I fixed the port 3 days ago.


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