On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > On Mar 7, 2010, at 8:52 PM, aman_none wrote: >> Our scenerio is like this we have to install clamav for surgemail which will >> be installed on Ubuntu OS. We need to integrate with surgemail and hence we >> want to use clamdscan only. > > That decision means you need to give clamd's user to scan whatever it is you > want it to scan. > > "chmod a+rX /var" might be a starting point,
sometimes it's easier to simply put clamd's user on surgemail's group, or change clamd's user to be the same as surgemail, or even run clamd as root. Either options have its own security implications though. > but you ought to understand basic Unix filesystem security and the > consequences of what this might be changing first; definitely. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
