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.

Dan

> -----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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