Bug#293207: bogofilter: Any fix found?

Karl Schmidt karl at xtronics.com
Thu Mar 10 06:24:11 CET 2005


Matthias Andree wrote:

> 
> Welcome to the wonders and mysteries of giving away write
> access. set-gid bits on directories can help a bit, as is already
> mentioned in the looong message trail in <http://bugs.debian.org/293207>
> 
If a set-gid bit is all that is needed why not just have the install create the 
default db directory  (/var/spool/bogofilter) with the correct permissions?

(That is much to simple - must be something wrong with the idea? Security? You 
could have debconf ask about it?)

If creating a bogofilter user is too complicated, setting up sudo is worse.

There has to be a clean way to resolve this. There are many ways to ask a 
question or two in debconf to put this to rest. I have it all working on my 
system and don't think I will forget the issue for a year or two, but it just 
seems you will hear about this issue for eternity unless it is thought out and a 
clean solution is worked out. There has to be a way to make it so your 
grandmother can install it to work with her MUA and Joe sysop can still do his 
thing without stepping on anyones toe.

Just so this dummy can understand - How would creating bogofilter.bogofilter be 
so annoying?

I can imagine at installation -- the screen turns blue and debconf asks:

If more than one user and/or MTA user will use bogofilter, do you want to 
control bogofilter usage by creating a bogofilter user?   Yes/No

Should bogofilter check for db file ownerships and provide a clear error message 
or do you want to be left alone and live with the cryptic Bdb error message?

Yes/No

There should be better wording and perhaps a bit of concise explanation - but 
what do you lose?



----------------------------------------------------------------
Karl Schmidt                         EMail Karl at xtronics.com
Transtronics, Inc.    		       WEB http://xtronics.com
3209 West 9th Street                    Ph (785) 841-3089
Lawrence, KS 66049                     FAX (785) 841-0434


"Even if you are on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there" - Will Rogers
----------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Bogofilter mailing list
Bogofilter at bogofilter.org
http://www.bogofilter.org/mailman/listinfo/bogofilter



More information about the Bogofilter mailing list