Milter-greylist

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, Matthias Scheler <tron@z...>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:06:36PM -0000, Brian Tobin wrote:
> > My permissions for the directory is:
> > [root@LINUX var]# ls -lda milter-greylist
> > drwxr-x---  2 root wheel 4096 Oct  7 10:55 milter-greylist
> > 
> > My permissions for the .sock file is:
> > [root@LINUX milter-greylist]# ls -l
> > total 0
> > srwxr-x---  1 root wheel 0 Oct  7 10:55 milter-greylist.sock
> 
> What about the parent directories for "milter-greylist"?
> 
> My permissions look like this:
> 
> tron@colwyn:~>ls -al /var/milter-greylist
> total 202
> drwxr-xr-x   2 smmsp  wheel     512 Oct  7 18:08 .
> drwxr-xr-x  38 root   wheel    1024 Oct  7 10:24 ..
> -rw-------   1 smmsp  wheel  191519 Oct  7 18:08 greylist.db
> srwxrwxrwx   1 smmsp  wheel       0 Oct  5 19:18 milter-greylist.sock
> 
> This is with "-u smmsp" of course.
> 

OK - My directories look like this:

[root@LINUX /]# ls -lda var
drwxr-xrwx  26 root root 4096 Oct  7 16:23 var

[root@LINUX /]# ls -lda /
drwxr-xr-x  28 root root 4096 Oct  7 16:23 /

I can't imagine I can change the write permissions on / or /var since
other applications must use these.  Should I change the directory the
milter runs from? Any recommendations?