[Dovecot] DSpam plugin

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Thu Sep 21 03:29:26 EEST 2006


On September 20, 2006 11:10:37 PM +0200 Milan Holzäpfel <listen at mjh.name> 
wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:24:25 -0400
> Michael Blinn <mblinn at peopleplaces.org> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if this is a permissions problem with the dspam executable. It
>> is
>>
>> -r-x--s--- 1 root mail 494628 Sep 20 12:15 /usr/local/bin/dspam
>
> In case you don't know: this means that the group the dspam executable
> is running as is changed to mail on execution, and only root or members
> of the group mail may execute it at all.

Just root.  It would need g+r for group mail to execute it.

On my system dspam is 02555 root:mail.  I don't know if that's the default
or if I tweaked it; probably the latter.

-frank


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