On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, dman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:40:44PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> | On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 08:02:40PM +0000, Bryan Ross wrote:
> | >
> | > My problems come when I try to access files in the User's home
> | > directories, either for a per-user configuration file, or a per-user
> | > whitelist. Basically, 'spamd' tries to write to /mail/.spammassassin/* -
> | > the home directory of the 'mail' user. Im assuming it's looking up its
> | > homedirectory from the password file, and getting the wrong answer.
> | >
> | > Courier sets $HOME to the home directory of the recipient, so is there a
> | > way I can get 'spamd' to use that instead?
> |
> | I have a similar problem. I run spamd as root, and until now, didn't have a
> | .spamassassin dir, so the auto whitelist rule thing didn't work.
> |
> | Should spamd either a) make the dir, or b) use a tmp dir or other user
> | config dir.
>
> spamd should use $HOME/.spamassassin for the $HOME of the $USER that
> spamc is run as. (this is what 1.5 does)
>
> I dislike apps creating their own config in my home directory. This
> caused a number of problems when I set up spamassassin because it was
> run by the MTA (user='mail') and not as the user the mail is addressed
> to.
Thats exactly the same problem as I have here. However, Im fortunate that
Courier will fill in the $HOME environment with the correct home
directory- eg, that of the mail recipient.
I noticed in 'spamd' that $ENV{HOME} is removed, I assume for security
reasons. On a very quick skim through the code, it appears the problem is
that 'spamd' is loading up one instance, and just re-using it - so, even
if we make it use $HOME, it will not re-evalute it for every mail.
Anyone have any patches/suggestions for a way round this? I know my
circumstances are coupled with Courier, but I could see this being quite a
common problem.
Thanks,
Bryan.
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