On 2008-12-16 21:31, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Török Edwin <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> On 2008-12-16 03:59, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>>     
>>> I want to try clamdscan, to benefit from clamd's multi-threadedness.
>>>
>>> But clamdscan exits with "Access denied"
>>>
>>>       
>> What user  is clamd running as, and does that user have read access to
>> all of your disk?
>>     
>
> Dear Edwin,
>
>   clamd is running as user "clamav" and that user does have read access to
> all of my disk.   All the files are world readable, and the
> directories are world
> readable and executable (searchable).
>
>   For a test, I ran "su -s /bin/bash clamav" and I was able to list
> the directory's
> contents and cat a few of the files.
>
>   I tried changing the clamav's UID and GID to 0, but the daemon would not
> start... got an "initgroups() failed" message from /sbin/start-stop-daemon
> which is I guess some kind of Ubuntu utility...
>
>   But the files are definitely world-readable.
>
>   Any ideas?

Some version of Ubuntu has shiny new AppArmor profiles, that may interfere.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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