On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:02:31AM -0400, sean darcy wrote: > On 04/07/2012 06:08 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 03:23:02PM -0400, sean darcy wrote: > >>Trying to route email to a script. snip
> What's the advantage of forward over alias? No root intervention nor configuration is required, and the script runs as that user. > Perhaps related, postfix runs the script as user "nobody". This > means the script can do very little, unless I give "nobody" > wide-open sudo permissions (another BAD idea). I there a way to > specify the user (for instance, sendfax) the script runs under? See above, and below. > >>cat /home/sendfax/fax/test-fax.cmd > >>#!/bin/sh > >>cat -> output > >> > >>I've opened up all the permissions: > > > >Not really. You're using alias_maps which I presume[1] are owned > >by root, thus running the command as $default_privs user. You'd > >also be running this inside ~$default_privs home directory. > > > >Change "output" to "/tmp/output" and see what happens. Did you look at the references? > >References: > >http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#alias_maps > > postconf.5.html#default_privs > >http://www.postfix.org/aliases.5.html > >http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html One other option which was not already given is to add a sendfax-owned file to alias_maps. That option makes sense for something like Mailman, which needs to maintain multiple aliases and run commands as the mailman user. In this case it probably does not make sense. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
