On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:21:21 +0200
Andreas Schneider <m...@cynapses.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> after 3.9.0 we should start to work on a better design of dspam.
> There is a big problem which should/could be avoided.
> 
> If you run dspam in daemon mode and a user should be able to call
> dspam as a client, you have to set the suid bit for dspam. So that
> dspam is able to read the config file to get the credentials to
> connect to the daemon. This should be changed.
> 
> There should be a client only configuration file. You should be able
> to load it from the home directory or specify the config via the
> command line or the credentials.

Yes, a good idea and.

> Working on this we should start to improve libdspam, cause of the
> above problem you can't really make use of it. Maybe the dspam client
> should use libdspam. So you have already a test tool for the library.

And link it statically. Also a good idea.

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