Kate Kleinschafer wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering what the permissions should be on the > /root/.spamassassin folder. > > When I run a message by the command > sudo -u postfix spamassassin -p > /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf -t < message.MAI > > I am getting the error warn: config: path /root/.spamassassin is > inaccessible permission denied. > owned by root:root > permissions drwx > That sounds like the postfix user doesn't have a home directory it can read/write, and it was pointed at /root to prevent it from having access. This is probably intentional in the security design of postfix, so it might be unwise to change it.
I would strongly consider running SA as a different user, one which has a home directory it has rights to. That also means you'd need to change your mailscanner config, and possibly rights on your /var/spool/MailScanner/* directories. However, I'm not terribly familiar here. The simple thing to do would be to create a /home/postfix, and modify the postfix user to have that homedir, but this would likely increase the risks of your postfix process being exploitable.
