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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: brian@awfulhak.org, tom@sdf.com
Subject: Re: unix domain sockets in 2.2-stable
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>  I found out what is happening.  The group and other permissions on unix
>sockets are ignored.  In my case the pwcheck daemon runs as root, and
>therefore the socket is owned by root.  However, the cyrus daemons can't
>open the socket because it seesm that the other bits (I have r-x
>set) are ignored, and the cyrus daemons run as the cyrus user.  If I chown
>the socket after pwcheck opens it, to the cyrus user, everything works ok.

Perhaps the bits used to be rwx.

Bruce

RCS file: /a/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c,v
Working file: uipc_usrreq.c
head: 1.26
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revision 1.15.4.2
date: 1997/08/15 13:54:00;  author: wollman;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Obey the process's umask when bind()ing a PF_LOCAL socket.

PR: 2680
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