Re: SA-3.1.0 permission problems

[Przemek]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:57:36 -0400
Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looks like SA is being invoked as root, which causes it to fall back
> to nobody.. Nobody doesn't have permissions to it's home dir (and
> should not) so it fails.
> 
> That should have been a problem for you in 3.0.4, but you might not
> have noticed , as SA may not have complained loudly.
Wenn i use 3.0.4 .spamassassin dir is always recreated (if not
exist) without any errors. (in home dir)

> Perhaps you should create a
> dedicahd user to use instead of root.
I try but i dont know how to made a user allow to change /home/*
Wenn i set 
spam:x:0:0:,,,:/var/spamd:/bin/bash
and run spamd with -u spam, spamd want start.
"option -u cant by use with notexisting user or root"

Please help.

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Re: SA-3.1.0 permission problems

[Matt Kettler]

Przemek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have spamassassin-3.1.0 runing as daemon from slackware-rc-script
> included with sa. My sa work with qmail-scanner.
> 
> Before updating form 3.0.4 everything was good, but now on 3.1.0
> after reciving mail i see this in logs:

Looks like SA is being invoked as root, which causes it to fall back to nobody..
Nobody doesn't have permissions to it's home dir (and should not) so it fails.

That should have been a problem for you in 3.0.4, but you might not have noticed
, as SA may not have complained loudly.

Perhaps you should create a dedicated user to use instead of root.