Robert Corrigan wrote: [ ... ] > The goal is to get a third party application (which runs as a daemon > under the root account) to scan files. Since I get the same behavior > regardless of whether I'm using the app or just typing on the terminal, > I'm fairly certain it's not the third party app. I'm not sure yet if I > can configure the daemon to run as someone else, or if I should.
You should not run the scanner daemon as root by default, but use a "clamav" or "vscan" user that most systems include. In particular, MacOS X ought to have the former account name: 3-cube% nidump passwd . | grep clamav clamav:*:82:82::0:0:Clamav User:/var/virusmails:/bin/tcsh > Is my root account setup just whacked, or is there anything I can do to > troubleshoot further? I don't have problems running anything else as > root... If you're using OpenLDAP/Active Directory instead, do you even have a root user in the LDAP database? Is /etc/passwd and the NetInfo version sane? mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.BACKUP nidump passwd . > /etc/passwd vipw ...and see whether it's sanity check thinks of things. Otherwise, read "man lookupd" on how to test and debug the MacOS X side of user lookups. -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
