Mailscanner quarantine permissions for Mailwatch

[Samuel Luxford-Watts]

I can su - postfix and chgrp fine.

I have already added postfix to the www group.

One curiosity tho - if I su - postfix and then type whami it says 'root'! Is
this because postfix is a system acct set up by suse?

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
Sent: 05 April 2004 16:27
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner quarantine permissions for Mailwatch


Make the postfix user a member of the www group and see if that helps. Can
you do this:
         su -
         su - postfix
         chgrp www /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/.....
i.e. as the user postfix, try to set the group ownership on some bit of the
quarantine to www.

If you are running Postfix, then you should run MailScanner as the user
postfix. That's quite correct. But there may be access permissions problems
getting the files to be the group you want.

At 16:26 05/04/2004, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I think this is more a mailscanner issue than mailwatch hence the
>posting here. I am having trouble getting mailscanner to save files in
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine with the correct user:group. In
>/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf I have set:
>
>Quarantine User = postfix
>Quarantine Group = www
>Quarantine Permissions = 0660
>Incoming Work User = postfix
>Incoming Work Group = www
>Incoming Work Permissions = 0600
>Run As User = postfix
>Run As Group = postfix
>
>However when I run MailScanner it always saves files into the
>quarantine dir owed by postfix:postfix. I am running Mailscanner V
>4.28.6, Suse 8.1 and Postfix.
>
>In MailScanner.conf it does say that it may not be able to chown to
>another user if it is not run as root. Are there any problems running
>MailScanner as root? I generally do not like running services as root
>and if I can chown a file quite happily using the postfix user why cant
>Mailscanner?
>
>Am I missing something obvious?
>
>Sam
>
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