Mike,
> I need a user other than amavisd or root to be able to release messages
> from quarantine. This user has been added to my amavis group, but the
> permissions on the amavisd.sock file don't allow group writes. As a
> result when this user runs amavisd-release they get an error.
>
> I can manually chmod the file to give it group write persmissions and it
> works fine, but as soon as I restart amavisd-new it gets recreated with
> the old permissions and it breaks again. Anybody got any insight on
> making this file get created with group-write permissions each time? Or
> any suggestion on an alternative release procedure would be welcome too.
Creation of socket is in the hands of Net::Server. Try the following change
(patch against 2.4.2, but should apply to other versions as well):
--- amavisd.orig Tue Jun 27 13:31:56 2006
+++ amavisd Fri Sep 29 12:43:33 2006
@@ -6869,2 +6869,7 @@
### Net::Server hook
+sub post_bind_hook {
+ umask(0027);
+}
+
+### Net::Server hook
### This hook occurs in the parent (master) process after chroot,
@@ -9661,2 +9666,3 @@
$0 = 'amavisd (master)';
+umask(0007); # affect protection of Unix sockets created by Net::Server
$server->run; # transfer control to Net::Server
Mark
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