Ilan Aisic wrote: > Matt, > I've modified the permissions on my auto-whitelist file and directory > to 777
I didn't say modify the permissions of the file or directory. I said to modify your configuration file option in your local.cf to be 0777. The file should be set to 666 anyway (which is what SA will do if the option is 777, RTFM that I quoted again, closely this time) > even though I don't see why this is needed since spamd runs as > root. Spamd will *NEVER*, EVER, scan mail as root. Thus it will not have root permissions when touching that file. If it finds it's running as root when mail is to be scanned, it will setuid itself to nobody as a security measure of last-resort. If you're running as root, take measures to make sure nobody has RWX to the directory, RW to the file, and your auto_whitelist_file_mode needs to be set to 0777.
