Bug#494746: cyrus-imapd-2.2: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed: Permission, denied

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Magnus Danielson wrote:
> Regardless, the proposed solution at least survives upgrade, where
> as the comment on chmod to 755 for the socket directory will break
> on upgrade.

For the record:

1.  Don't chmod things to 755, unless you disable pre-auth on the unix
socket (which might be a good way to solve things, actually).

2.  Use dpkg-statoverride to change the socket directory' permissions, owner
and group.  The package actively makes sure it will survive upgrades.

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