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

[David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com>]

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On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:40:01 +0100, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote about
[gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn:

[snip]
>I tried 
>    
>    sudo -u nobody sa-learn --spam
> --dbpath /etc/mail/nobody/.spamassassin/ --dir .
>
>as user mccramer but it complains with:
>"Sorry, user mccramer is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/sa-learn
>--spam --dbpath /etc/mail/nobody/.spamassassin/ --dir .' as
>nobody:nobody on solfire."
>
>/etc/sudoers is set to allow this for mccramer.
>
>What is the trick to accomplish what is wanted here ?

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.]
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon)
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