Re: RE: Post.Office mta user home directory?

> 
> From: "Dan Tappin" <dan.tappin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2003/12/12 Fri AM 04:50:41 PST
> To: <post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Post.Office mta user home directory?
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I ran these utilities but do I need to restart NetInfo for the changes to 
> take effect?
> 
> I run:
> 
> sudo -u mta spamassassin --lint -D
> 
> and SA is still looking to R/W in my /Users/admin/.spamassassin directory??  
> The admin user is the sys-admin account I have on this
> machine.

I think the command should be:

sudo spamd -u mta -d

regards,
Eric

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Yang [mailto:eyang@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:24 AM
> > To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Post.Office mta user home directory?
> >
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > You can try this:
> >
> > sudo niutil -destroyprop . /users/mta dir
> > sudo niutil -createprop . /users/mta dir /path/to/home/dir
> >
> > regards,
> > Eric
> >
> > >
> > > From: "Dan Tappin" <dan.tappin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: 2003/12/11 Thu PM 11:57:02 PST
> > > To: <post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Post.Office mta user home directory?
> > >
> > > Are there any *nix geeks or Tenon support people out there that can help 
> > > me with the creation of a home directory and
> > shell for the
> > > mta user that Post.Office runs under?
> > >
> > > I am running SpamAssassin (SA) and I am configuring if manually.  I am 
> > > trying to set-up the bayes learning feature of SA.  I am
> > > running SA as the mta user (non-root) as recommended on this list.  The 
> > > problem is that SA tries to save the various
> > bayes related
> > > files in various locations on the system (/var/root/ for example).  
> > > Obviously the mta user does not have permissions to read or
> > > write to the /var/root/ directory.
> > >
> > > I am guessing it is trying to do this because the mta user was created by 
> > > Apple by default or by Tenon during the
> > install process
> > > and a home directory or shell was not needed and therefore not created 
> > > for security reasons (the idea of least privilege).
> > >
> > > Are there any reasons whey I should not do this?  I think I could figure 
> > > this out via NetInfo but I would sure like to
> > have another
> > > tool in my expanding CLI toolbox.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
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