[Mimedefang] defang running as postfix user

Matt Garretson mattg at assembly.state.ny.us
Tue Dec 1 17:20:24 EST 2009


Aniruddha Barua wrote:
> Normally, "mimedefang" is run as user "defang", "postfix" is run as "postfix" and "clamav" is
> run as user "defang" because it is "mimedefang" that calls "clamav". There may be other ways too.


On my systems I just add the clamav user into the defang 
group, and then chmod g+rx /var/spool/MIMEDefang .

(Note that you'll have to do the above chmod every time
you install/upgrade MIMEdefang, as the Makefile resets
the permissions on the spool dir.)





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