[Mimedefang] Using ClamAV with default run-as-user settings

[Stephen Johnson]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:39, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> The ClamAV RPM installs with the assumption that the services will run as 
> user "clamav". MD's RPM assumes that it will run as user "defang". Changing 
> ClamAV to comply requires changing ownership of a couple of directories and 
> editing the /etc/clamav.conf file.
> 
> It seems to me that it would be simpler if MD made its directories and 
> files group-readable (using group "defang"); one could then add clamav to 
> the defang group. The MD RPM could check for the existence of the clamav 
> user and add it to the defang group.
> 
> Is there a problem with setting things up that way that I'm not seeing? Any 
> pointers on where to tweak MD to test it?

You won't run into a problem with the clamd, but I ran into a problem
with freshclam. freshclam update clamd with the --with-notify option. I
tried various fixes that didn't work. I wound up rebuilding from source
with the user defang.


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