On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:58:25 -0400
Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On 11-10-16 03:37 PM, RW wrote:
> >
> > Could you not just run a script from cron that does chown
> > ${USER}:spamd and chmod g+rw on all the files in the virtual home
> > directories.
>
> You seem to have gotten lost in minor details and lost sight on the
> original problem
I haven't lost sight of anything. I'm suggesting a simple workaround
that may solve your practical problem without your having to
code any perl.
> which is that of being able to run spamd in such a
> way that it setuids to the user receiving the mail (i.e. run as root,
> so without -u) but also looks for the user_state dir (i.e. which is
> usually ~/.spamassassin) somewhere other than the user's $HOME
> (--virtual-config_dir). These two concepts, for some strange reason,
> seem to be mutually exclusive.
As the name implies --virtual-config_dir is there to support virtual
users. What you are trying to do is not common.
