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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:09:01 -0500
From:      John <john@starfire.mn.org>
To:        Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Really simple spam trap - /dev/pf permissions?
Message-ID:  <20100427200901.GA92209@elwood.starfire.mn.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BD73F21.1030504@unsane.co.uk>
References:  <20100427193106.GA91570@elwood.starfire.mn.org> <4BD73F21.1030504@unsane.co.uk>

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 08:46:41PM +0100, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> On 27/04/2010 20:31, John wrote:
> > This seems to be working pretty well, and I'll eventually take the
> > print statement out, but I'm not sure why I had to make /dev/pf
> > public read/write in order to get the pfctl command to work.
> >
> > What is the best solution to be able to add to my spammers table
> > in pf without making it public read/write?
> >   
> It would probably make more security sense to add the user that the
> script is running as to a group (say pfctl)
> then make the /dev/pf device group owned by the pfctl group and group
> writable.
> Other options include sudo access for your scripts user to run a
> specific pfctl command.
> 

Oh, yeah, duh!  Add mailnull to a pfctl group... That makes sense.
-- 

John Lind
john@starfire.MN.ORG



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