Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-09-27 Thread Bob Miller
directory to enforce permissions I observed that I still had the same problem. Further trial and error led me to see that simscan does not appear to observe group permissions at all. Many thanks to those that assisted my chase of an untamed ornithoid without cause... -- Computerisms Bob Miller

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-08-08 Thread Bob Miller
Hello Everybody, Sorry for the tardiness of my response, those pesky customers have been keeping me pretty occupied this week... > > Reading that thread also got me to considering that another solution > > to this problem is to not put the socket in the /tmp directory, but > > make a custom dire

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-08-02 Thread Bob Miller
Hi Dennis, > What is the state of selinux on your system? This is found in some > distributions by running getenforce at the command line. This is a stock debian jesse build. As I understand it, selinux is not enabled by default, and I can find no evidence there are any policies in effect. >

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-08-02 Thread Bob Miller
Hi Bryan, Thank you very much for contributing your thoughts to this thread. > E.g. 007 permissions (--rwx) does *not* give 'everyone' read/write/execute > permissions; it only gives people who are (1) not the owner/in the owner > class, and (2) > not in the owning group/in the group class.

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-08-02 Thread Bob Miller
Hello, > > You might be. Please look at the permissions of the parent > > directory. > > You might then want to make changes to those permissions and once > > more > > repeat your tests. Note: In a *n[iu]x system you can delete a file > > in > > a directory to which you can write, even if you ca

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-08-01 Thread Bob Miller
Hello, > > srw-rw 1 root root0 Jul 31 10:04 clamd.socket > > > > This way clamd runs as root, daemontools can restart clamd, and simscan > > can scan the test message. It works, but I am not really liking the > > idea of running clamd as root. > > That wasn't what I suggested, and I agre

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-07-31 Thread Bob Miller
Hello, > > I realize seeing this that the list rules are not to top post, yet my > > very first reply to this list that is exactly what I did. > > What list rules would that be? > > > -Al- This is the content of the mail I received upon having my subscription to this list approved, the last en

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-07-31 Thread Bob Miller
; Top posting from Seattle... I realize seeing this that the list rules are not to top post, yet my very first reply to this list that is exactly what I did. I make apologies; it is a damned hard habit to break... > > dp > > On 7/31/13 10:27:26AM, Bob Miller wrote: > > Thank

Re: [clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-07-31 Thread Bob Miller
vious observations that group permissions do not seem to work on the socket? -- Computerisms Bob Miller 867-334-7117 / 867-633-3760 http://computerisms.ca On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 11:38 +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Bob Miller wrote: > > > Than

[clamav-users] clamd socket permissions

2013-07-30 Thread Bob Miller
er that owner has rw perms on it. Surely there is some documentation that would explain this discrepancy, but I have spent a good deal of time on google over the last few days and not found it. Would anybody be able to point me at such documentation, or offer explanation to clear my confusion? Thanks for