Milter-greylist

Thanks for your help,

I understand that I may be asking questions that can be answered in the
manual/README but I have tried what is mentioned there and not found what I
am looking for, hence I am asking.

For example:  the README mentions installing the greylist using configure &&
make && make install. When I tried that it did not install properly as
various files that should have been in certain places were not there:

there was no greylist.conf in /etc/mail - I had to copy it over,
there was no pid or sock file when I started the service (after copying the
correct script over to /etc/rc.d/init.d)
etc

This was why I then built it using rpmbuild -tb (which I got from an earlier
post in this mailing-list)

So, when I was asking about rebuilding with 'user as smmsp' I meant when
using rpmbuild and not using 'configure && make && make install'.  That
would be mentioned in the man page for rpmbuild (which I have read) and I
could not find it.  That is also not mentioned in the README.  Which is why
I asked.

I guess I should have been more specific.

In any case, it seems to be running (albeit as user root) and seems to be
delaying connections as specified in the .conf file - and or getting me this
far I thank everyone that has responded to my queries - you've all been most
helpful.

I only ask this - is the README the best and only place for learning how to
fine tune the .conf file ?

Regards,
Arjun

  On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:18:40AM -0500, Arjun Datta wrote:
  > How do I rebuild with user smmsp ?

  I know that RTFM is not a friendly answer, but you should consider
re-reading
  section 1 of the README file...

  > Also, just curious, but why should the milter run as smmsp - wouldn't it
  > have more permissions if it ran as root ?

  If there is a security hole in milter-greylist and you run it as root,
then
  an attacker could take over your machine by sending a specially crafted
  e-mail. If you run as smmsp, the attacker will only gain smmsp privileges.

  --
  Emmanuel Dreyfus
  manu@...