URGENT: MailScanner issue on Linux mail server

Spicer, Kevin Kevin.Spicer at BMRB.CO.UK
Tue May 13 17:33:23 IST 2003


> Yeah it didnt paste the R
> 
> Run As User = postfix
> 
> Would there be an issue if the directory /var/spool/mail had the
> permissions like this
> 
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mail         4096 May 13 06:07 mail/
> 

Looks about right, my Mandrake machines with postfix (9.0 the one I looked at) has 775 root:mail, this isn't a problem becuase local mail delivery is handled by procmail which runs sgid mail (you might like to check /usr/bin/procmail is setgid mail!).



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