paths and permissions

[Tom Allison]

Matt Garretson wrote:
> David Relson wrote:
> 
>> Userid "charlie" doesn't have write access to wordlist.db and can't
>> modify the file when logged in and running commands.  However when
>> there's email for "charlie", he has write access to the file.  A test
> 
> 
> I think that in certain configurations, procmail runs as root (despite
> the value of LOGNAME, etc.) until it actually tries to write to the
> user's maildrop.  In such cases, bogofilter will also run as root.
> 
> If you want to test this theory, add "DROPPRIVS=yes" to the procmail
> rc file just before bogofilter -u gets called.  My bet is that it
> will start to fail.  So might other things, too, so use caution. :)
> 

SuSE 90:
tallison at janus:~> ls -l /usr/bin/procmail
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        72368 2003-09-23 12:49 
/usr/bin/procmail
tallison at janus:~>