Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn

[David W Noon]

On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:02 +0100, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn:

>David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com> [11-03-05 15:43]:
[snip]
>> I need to specify the full path to the executable, /usr/bin/sa-learn,
>> when I use sudo to run it as amavis. [Note that I use Spamassassin as
>> part of Postfix via the amavisd-new daemon.  I also have my Bayes
>> tokens in a PostgreSQL database.  So my sa-learn command looks rather
>> different from yours anyway.]
[snip]
>no luck...the problem remains the same with or without the full
>path...

Run visudo (as root) and check your sudo option.  The ones on my
system, applicable to this, are as follows:

Defaults        env_reset, always_set_home

Cmnd_Alias SPAMASSASSIN
= /usr/bin/sa-learn, /usr/bin/spamassassin, /usr/bin/spamc

%mail   ALL=(amavis) NOPASSWD: SPAMASSASSIN

[Note that the second one is on 1 line.  My newsreader has word-wrapped
it to 2 lines at its first punctuation mark.]

This allows anyone in the "mail" group to run any of the end-user
commands for Spamassassin as the "amavis" user, without requiring them
to supply a password -- or even that "amavis" have a password.

I usually export spam or ham into an mbox file and then run:

sudo -u amavis /usr/bin/sa-learn --ham --mbox /tmp/good_ham.mbx

and this works well.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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