Re: Beginner's question on DCC (SOLVED)

[Walter Hurry <wa...@lavabit.com>]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:15:04 +0100, RW wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am setting up Spamassassin on my home laptop, primarily as a learning
>> exercise. I am mainly following the cookbook at
>> <http://wiki.apache.org/ spamassassin/SingleUserUnixInstall>.
>> 
>> However, I have a problem with DCC. dccproc is at
>> /usr/local/bin/dccproc, and the data files are in /var/dcc.
>> 
>> When I run the suggested test:
>> 
>> spamassassin -D
>> < /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/examples/sample-nonspam.txt
>> 
>> I see the following in stderr:
>> 
>> dbg: dcc: got response: open(/var/dcc/map): Permission denied
>> 
>> Indeed, since the file /var/dcc/map is -rw------- 1 root root.
>> 
>> I suspect that the correct procedure is to move the files in /var/dcc
>> elsewhere, and give them appropriate permissions. But if I do, how do I
>> tell dcc where to find them? I see from "man dccproc" that I could use
>> the "-h <homedir>" argument, but I don't know how to go about that
>> since it's called from Spamassassin.
>> 
>> And is there a better solution anyway?
> 
> In FreeBSD it's owned by an unprivileged user (dcc by default) and
> dccproc is a setuid binary.
> 
> You might want to check in an OS/distribution specific list what their
> canonical solution is. Changes to permissions may get reverted on
> package update.

Thanks for the response. There is no DCC package for my distribution 
(Debian), so I had to compile from source. Setuid on dccproc was indeed 
the answer, so thanks again for the pointer.