Matt Kettler wrote:
Appreciate the correction. Created a new user, spamd, with home directory of /home/spamd, and no more errors and the AWL and bayes files are now correctly created in the /home/spamd/.spamassassin directory:Rob Kudyba wrote:
Not using spamc at the moment. Running spamd as user nobody.
nobody 16877 0.0 1.1 26356 5848 ? S Apr08 0:01 /usr/local/bin/perl -T -w /usr/local/bin/spamd -u nobody -d -x -D nobody 16878 0.0 4.0 30208 20712 ? S Apr08 1:07 spamd child nobody 16879 0.0 4.1 30308 21132 ? S Apr08 1:09 spamd child nobody 16880 0.0 4.0 29832 20816 ? S Apr08 1:09 spamd child nobody 16881 0.0 4.0 30048 20916 ? S Apr08 1:09 spamd child nobody 16882 0.0 4.0 29792 20848 ? S Apr08 1:08 spamd child
in /etc/passwd: nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
So I'm guessing a fix would be: mkdir /home/nobody
STOP!!!!!! DO NOT UNDER ANY CONDITION GIVE NOBODY A HOME DIRECTORY THAT IT CAN WRITE TO.
You WILL reduce the security of your server if you do so. Nobody is NOT intended to have a writable home directory. Many applications revoke privilege to nobody, and they gain added strength against attack from this feature of the account.
Do not weaken the security of other apps on your system to fix this.
Instead, do as I suggested create a dedicated deprivileged user, and use
that instead of nobody.
94440 -rw------- 1 spamd spamd 12288 Apr 11 16:20 auto-whitelist
94442 -rw------- 1 spamd spamd 12288 Apr 11 16:20 bayes_seen
94441 -rw------- 1 spamd spamd 12288 Apr 11 16:20 bayes_toks
