Pilerimport user switch

[János Csárdi-Braunstein]

Pilerimport doesn't use username option from piler.conf, always try to create file with piler owner in the store directory.

[Janos SUTO]

Well, the 'username' option is for the piler daemon. The pilerimport utility is setuid to the piler user, since it has to create files under the store directory. Note that normally no other user should access the store directory.

However it's possible to change the user in 2 steps:

1. chown the store directory to "newuser"
2. chown newuser /path/to/pilerimport, chmod 6511 /path/to/pilerimport

Btw. why do you want to change the user?

[János Csárdi-Braunstein]

My exim run as mail user, and i use pilerimport with pipe, but exim can't switch to another user.

[Janos SUTO]

OK, I see. But wait a second: pilerimport is setuid to "piler", isn't it? If it is not, and you can't make it to setuid for some reason, then you have to

chown -R mail /var/piler/store chmod -s /usr/local/bin/pilerimport

[Janos SUTO]

Is there any news about the matter?

[János Csárdi-Braunstein]

Így megy, igen.

[Janos SUTO]

OK, akkor lezarom az issue-t.