On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:11:31PM -0700, Joel Knight wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at spamd's behavior when the -P flag is used. On lines 280 > and 387 a log message is generated if -P is used and if the script is still > running as root. This could happen for two reasons: > > 1) handle_user() was passed the username "root" > 2) no "User" header was passed to spamd > > In both cases, I believe spamd should fall back to a default user > of "nobody". Currently this does not happen; processing continues as > root. The only time spamd falls back to nobody is when -P is not used. > I think that whether or not -P is used the following should happen: > > a) spamd changes uids to the user running spamc via handle_user() > b) if handle_user() fails or no "User" header, fall back to nobody > c) if that fails, die() > > I have attached a patch which turns on this behavior. Comments? > > Please CC replies to me. > > > .joel >
Umm... please enlighten us as to what -P would be good for then. If you want the behaviour you describe, simply remove the -P flag. Perhaps you are confusing the -P option for spamassassin with the -P option for spamd? -- Duncan Findlay _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
