From: Randy Ramsdell (rramsdelllivedatagroup.com)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 09:01:23 CDT

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Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:35:19AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
>
>
>> I am trying to run a script that parses a file which is created by
>> "aliases." The file has perms of 600, owner "nobody." The only problem
>> with this is that the same aliase line that creates the file, pipes to a
>> script that cannot access the file. The script runs as postfix and the
>> file owned by nobody. What is the easiest way to resolve this? Ideally
>> that is a way to change the file ownership to postfix or run the script
>> as nobody.
>>
>
> This is anecdotal report, please post concrete facts.
>
> - "postconf -n" output.
> - Relevant aliases file entries
> - Logs
> - Show permissions for every path component of the target file.
>
>
Was it really confusing? The aliases file can copy an email to a file
and also pipe to a script. The file perms of the email prevent the the
script from parsing the file.

Aliases
autoresponder:
/tmp/FDC_RETREAT,|/opt/systems/mail/postfix/configs/atlanta_corp/autoresponder/autoresponder.sh

Log:
The logs show the email is sent to autoresponder which works as expected.

ls -l /tmp |grep FDC
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 4249 Mar 26 10:09 FDC_RETREAT

I assume the script runs as postfix since postfix runs as user:postfix.

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