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List:       courier-users
Subject:    Re: [courier-users] pythonfilter - clamav as unprivileged user
From:       Gordon Messmer <yinyang () eburg ! com>
Date:       2009-06-14 21:50:55
Message-ID: 4A3570BF.3070003 () eburg ! com
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On 06/13/2009 10:09 AM, Jérôme Blion wrote:
> I reinstalled clamav from Debian repositories. By default, it runs as
> clamav user.

It's relatively easy to set up an init script to run clamd as whatever 
user you prefer (Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS does this), which is really the 
best thing to do.  Writing the entire file through a socket to clamd 
increases your overhead, and IIRC, scanning streams doesn't work as well 
as scanning files due to some limitation of clamAV.

I tend to prefer running with the pyclamav module.  Otherwise, I 
recommend running clamd as a user with access to the files which must be 
scanned.


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