On Friday 28 January 2005 03:31, Niek wrote: > On 1/28/2005 11:25 AM +0100, Hal Goldfarb wrote: > > clamdscan uses the clamd daemon to perform scans, and since it runs as > > user clamav (or the like), it does not have enough permissions to scan > > calling user's directories if they are protected. > > > > For instance, my .tvtime subdirectory in my home will be scanned by > > clamscan, but will generate errors using clamdscan. I understand why, > > but isn't this some sort of shortcoming of this design? > > > > I will use clamscan, not clamdscan, until this can be addressed. > > Run clamd as a user with enough privileges. > > Niek
Er, uh, unless Linux has invented some permissions schemes I do not know about (which is entirely possible), I think that would be root. And that is probably not such a great idea. Then again, Linux has ACL's doesn't it? I suppose it can be done that way, but it means setting them up for every user I think. I only run this box for one user (me), so it really is a trivial issue over here, but I am trying to imagine a data center environment ... Thanks for the suggestion, Hal _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
