Bug#293207: bogofilter: Any fix found?

[Karl Schmidt]

As the originator of this bug report, I want people on this list understand the 
status of the bug (it is closed) and the nature of the problem may be a bit 
confusing looking at the log at Debian.

In the beginning (before the transaction logging), the db files were created the 
first time bogofilter was run with that users ownership and umask. If those 
permissions were lose enough everything worked no matter who used them.

Now - add the new setup that creates log files - the log files get the 
 >>CURRENT<< users creation mask and ownership. Now when some other user tries 
to run bogofilter the permission miss match from the log files return a not very 
useful error from Bdb about db corruption, as it can't read the necessary log file.

Bdb isn't interested in checking ownership. The Bogofilter authors don't think 
it is important (if the user is always the same it works) and it isn't precisely 
their bug. So instead of doing some kind of ownership test that would return a 
useful error, this permission problem will be rediscovered and talked about on 
this list for the foreseeable future.

One way to fix this problem would be to have the package installation set up a 
bogofilter user who would allow anyone belonging to the bogofilter group run 
bogofilter and the bogofilter user would actually call Bdb and that would  cause 
all files to have a bogofilter.bogofilter ownership and no one would get any 
error other than one complaining that the user doesn't belong to the bogofilter 
group and no db corruption would occur.

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