Re: Documentation enhancement: Adjusting DB file permissions after upgrade to 2.5

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Documentation enhancement: Adjusting DB file pe...
\ Jan P. Kessler (15 Jan 2008)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (15 Jan 2008)
. . \ Jan P. Kessler (15 Jan 2008)
. . . \ (Wietse Venema) (15 Jan 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Documentation enhancement: Adjusting DB file permissions after upgrade to 2.5
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	15 Jan 2008

Jan P. Kessler:
> Wietse Venema schrieb:
> > Like this existing text in RELEASE_NOTES, but duplicated in the
> > case that people have root-owned cache files in postfix-owned
> > directories?
> >
> > "If you wish to continue using a pre-existing tls_random_exchange_name
> > or address_verify_map file, move it to the Postfix-owned data_directory
> > and change ownership to the account specified with the mail_owner
> > configuration parameter."
> >
> > Wietse
> >
>
> Big sorry - false alarm, I somehow missed that! Please forget this and
> thank you for the hint!
>
> P.S.: It wasn't my idea to have the old cache files root-owned. The old
> postfix release created them with these privileges.

Sure. Unfortunately, had the parent directory also been root-owned,
the Postfix upgrade would automagically have switched to a new file
under the postfix-owned /var/lib/postfix instead of using the old file.

Wietse