On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 06:07:06PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > As I've said, a human uses the "amavis" account. I think this statement here needs a bit of expansion, and thus it more clarity happens.
Your aforementioned human generally doesn't use the 'amavis' account in the same way that they might use a normal account. They don't expect to login to it with GNOME/SSH and run typical user applications (Libreoffice, Nethack etc.). It's a system account that CAN get configured by a human manually becoming that user. Either by login or means of changing effective UID (su, sudo, doas, ksu, pmrun, runas, ...). For a more secure environment, I would expect amavis to never have a password and thus not be subject to normal login flows. Gentoo Infra manages amavis & spamd without logging in as a human: configuration management is used to change settings & files. From this, I posit that something OUTSIDE of /home is the most-correct location. /srv or /var. Upstream uses /var/amavis Debian uses /var/lib/amavis I'm sympathetic to past users who have /home/amavisd and need to migrate it, but such is the nature of sysadmin life. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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