Hi Douglas, Douglas Kirkland schrieb :
> Why does it matter if one of your users uses some other user's > user_prefs file. As far as I am concerned I do not care if one of my > users uses another user's user_prefs file. They would only hurt > themselves by using some other user_prefs file. You do want to limit > who can access the spamd server, but beyond that I would not care. > > I hope you understood that. That's what I said as well. ;) But users told me, that for example their auto-whitelist.* and bayes* files might be spoiled by some other users committing the wrong '-u spoofuser' to spamd. maybe I haven't understood enough of spamassassin yet, and there is no real problem.:-< > Just a note, I have over 250 different user_prefs file from over 200 > different server with 3 spamd server doing the work. and the users do have shell-access on the machines? spamd running as root? > > Now there is also the 'spamd --auth-ident' option available. Now my > > question: Is anyone using this option and can it assure that spamd > > wont use any but the user_prefs of the user that is calling spamc? > > I do not use the auth-ident option. No success so far with it here, might be due to some problems with Net::Inet & perl 5.8.x which is running on my test-system. > > We only want spamd to listen on '--socketpath=path'. Spamc should be > > invoked from within .procmailrc. > > I could not get this method to work. It does work, afaik unix-socket should be cheaper with Resssources than TCP_Socket. Thx for your feedback. Hans ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
