cannot use --sql-config without -u => setuidgid

[Manfred Langthaller <ro...@aon.at>]

Hi!

I am running a qmail-ldap Mailserver on Debian 3.1 (sarge).
Spamassassin is called through simscan, which passes a username
(email-address) to spamd before scanning.
(Simscan passes the username running simscan, if there are more than one 
recipients)
Spamassassin is configured to have user-preferences, per-user-bayes, AWL
data stored in an mysql-database.

All my qmail-ldap processes are started and supervised by DJB's daemontools.

The according run script concerning spamd looks like this:

###
...
exec setuidgid vmail /usr/bin/spamd -x -q --max-children 5
--helper-home-dir=/etc/mail/spamassassin -s stderr
--socketpath=/var/run/spamd/spamd.sock
###

Spamd runs as user vmail as you can see below.
But after upgrading to spamassassin 3.2.4 spamd refuses to start => 
"cannot use --sql-config without -u" (now spamd runs with -x -q -u vmail)

It seems that the "setuidgid to vmail" is not recognized.

root@gateway:~# ps aux |grep spamd
...
vmail    12411  0.0  0.6  4844 3380 ?        R    14:46   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/bin/spamd -x -q --max-children 5
--helper-home-dir=/etc/mail/spamassassin -s stderr
--socketpath=/var/run/spamd/spamd.sock
root     12413  0.0  0.1  1880  712 pts/1    R+   14:46   0:00 grep spamd

Regards,

Manfred

Re: cannot use --sql-config without -u => setuidgid

[Manfred Langthaller <ro...@aon.at>]

Manfred Langthaller schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> I am running a qmail-ldap Mailserver on Debian 3.1 (sarge).
> Spamassassin is called through simscan, which passes a username
> (email-address) to spamd before scanning.
> (Simscan passes the username running simscan, if there are more than one 
> recipients)
> Spamassassin is configured to have user-preferences, per-user-bayes, AWL
> data stored in an mysql-database.
> 
> All my qmail-ldap processes are started and supervised by DJB's 
> daemontools.
> 
> The according run script concerning spamd looks like this:
> 
> ###
> ...
> exec setuidgid vmail /usr/bin/spamd -x -q --max-children 5
> --helper-home-dir=/etc/mail/spamassassin -s stderr
> --socketpath=/var/run/spamd/spamd.sock
> ###
> 
> Spamd runs as user vmail as you can see below.
> But after upgrading to spamassassin 3.2.4 spamd refuses to start => 
> "cannot use --sql-config without -u" (now spamd runs with -x -q -u vmail)
> 
> It seems that the "setuidgid to vmail" is not recognized.
> 
> root@gateway:~# ps aux |grep spamd
> ...
> vmail    12411  0.0  0.6  4844 3380 ?        R    14:46   0:00
> /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/bin/spamd -x -q --max-children 5
> --helper-home-dir=/etc/mail/spamassassin -s stderr
> --socketpath=/var/run/spamd/spamd.sock
> root     12413  0.0  0.1  1880  712 pts/1    R+   14:46   0:00 grep spamd
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Manfred
> 
> 
> 
Additional info:

 From the debug log I can see $setuid_to_user is set to 0.
dbg: spamd: will perform setuids? 0

I think im my setup it is not necessary check for -u.

Regards,

Manfred