On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:31:01 -0500 Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 11/20/2015 1:06 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > > So my only other question is: does the "-u" option to spamc *only* > > control the user that the spamc process runs as? Or does it interact > > with the --virtual-user-config spamd option in any other way? > > spamc's "-u" option passes the username/emailaddress to spamd. It > has *no* effect on the system user used by spamc or spamd.
It does if spamd is run without -u. In that case the spamd child process will temporarily drop to the unix user specified by spamc -u (or by default the user running spamc). It's best to run spamd with -u unless it's essential to access databases and configuration in unix home directories. > spamd's "--virtual-user-config" does variable replacement based on > the user specified by spamc's "-u" option. This also does not affect > the system user, just the directory where spamd expects to find the > config files. I think it's worth repeating that it will only look in those virtual home directories if --virtual-user-config is combined with -x, otherwise it will still look in the home directory of the spamd user.
