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Re: [milter-greylist] group permissions for socket

2007-01-29 by Nerijus Baliunas

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:05:35 +0100 manu@... wrote:

> > > Run with -u user:group 
> > Is is possible to achieve the same by only changing greylist.conf?
> 
> If I recall correctly, yes.

Yes, both are working, but only -u username[:groupname] is described in a man page.

Here is a patch for greylist.conf.5:

diff -u -r1.57 greylist.conf.5
--- greylist.conf.5	29 Jan 2007 04:57:18 -0000	1.57
+++ greylist.conf.5	29 Jan 2007 21:40:04 -0000
@@ -766,11 +766,12 @@
   socket "/var/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock"
 .TP
 .I user
-This keyword should be followed by a quoted user login. Like the 
+This keyword should be followed by a quoted user login and optionally :groupname.
+Like the 
 .B -u
 option, this is used to run
 .B milter-greylist(8)
-as a non root user.  Here is an example:
+as a non root user. Here is an example:
 .IP
   user "smmsp"
 .SH MISCELLANEOUS

But the problem still remains - although it sets group owner, I still need
group write permission as well.

Regards,
Nerijus

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