[Mimedefang] Is it yet possible to run clamd (with mimedefang) as a different user?

Lee Dilkie Lee at dilkie.com
Wed Jan 26 12:44:56 EST 2005


>If you are using the freebsd ports system, you can upgrade your clamav
>installation using portupgrade (which can be installed
>from /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade). Simply edit
>your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf file and add:
>
>MAKE_ARGS = {
>        'security/clamav' => 'CLAMAVUSER=mailnull
>CLAMAV_CLAMD_SOCKET=/var/spool/MIMEDefang/clamd.sock',
>  }
>
>
>  
>
Thanks Sven,

I added the make arg to /etc/make.conf (along with  CLAMAVGROUP) and 
that fixes things up nicely.

I tried some other solutions but the DontBlameSendmail option just 
sounded too scary to turn on so I opted to run clamd as the same user 
that sendmail and MD run as.

-lee



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