ports/142382: [patch] Fix mail/mailscanner 4.79.4

Mike Jakubik mike.jakubik at intertainservices.com
Wed Jan 6 16:00:18 UTC 2010


>Number:         142382
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [patch] Fix mail/mailscanner 4.79.4
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 06 16:00:13 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mike Jakubik
>Release:        8.0-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
This is a workaround to the continuous taint mode incompatibilities with this code.

Since I have been unsuccessful at reaching the mailscanner community to address these, i created this work around instead.

- This patch introduces a new rc variable called "mailscanner_user". If you changed the "Run As User" variable in MailScanner.conf (which triggers taint mode) you MUST now also set the same value in /etc/rc.conf.

- Removed ulimit bump from startup script, since its now dynamically set at boot time based on system resources.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
diff -urN mailscanner.orig/Makefile mailscanner/Makefile
--- mailscanner.orig/Makefile   2010-01-04 15:19:40.000000000 -0500
+++ mailscanner/Makefile        2010-01-04 16:00:18.000000000 -0500
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 PORTNAME=      MailScanner
 PORTVERSION=   4.79.4
+PORTREVISION=  1
 CATEGORIES=    mail
 MASTER_SITES=  http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/tar/
 DISTNAME=      ${PORTNAME}-install-${PORTVERSION}-${PATCHLEVEL}
diff -urN mailscanner.orig/files/mailscanner.in mailscanner/files/mailscanner.in
--- mailscanner.orig/files/mailscanner.in       2010-01-04 15:19:40.000000000 -0500
+++ mailscanner/files/mailscanner.in    2010-01-04 15:57:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #                                 Set it to "YES" to enable mailscanner
 # mailscanner_configfile (path):  Set to "%%PREFIX%%/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf" by default.
 # mailscanner_pidfile (path):     Set to "/var/run/MailScanner.pid" by default.
+# mailscanner_user (str):     Set to "root" by default. If you changed the "Run As User" variable in MailScanner.conf you MUST also set the same value here.
 #
 
 . %%RC_SUBR%%
@@ -22,22 +23,20 @@
 : ${mailscanner_enable="NO"}
 : ${mailscanner_configfile="%%PREFIX%%/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf"}
 : ${mailscanner_pidfile="/var/run/MailScanner.pid"}
+: ${mailscanner_user="root"}
 
 command="%%PREFIX%%/sbin/mailscanner"
 pidfile=${mailscanner_pidfile}
 command_args="${mailscanner_configfile}"
+procname="MailScanner"
 
 required_files="${mailscanner_configfile}"
 
-_ms_start_precmd() {
-       # Quietly try to raise the open_files limit
-       #
-       ulimit -n 2000 >/dev/null 2>&1
-}
-
-start_precmd=_ms_start_precmd
+start_cmd="mailscanner_start"
 
-procname="MailScanner"
+mailscanner_start() {
+    su -m ${mailscanner_user} -c "exec ${command} ${command_args}"
+}
 
 run_rc_command "$1"
 
diff -urN mailscanner.orig/files/pkg-message.in mailscanner/files/pkg-message.in
--- mailscanner.orig/files/pkg-message.in       2010-01-04 15:19:40.000000000 -0500
+++ mailscanner/files/pkg-message.in    2010-01-04 15:41:35.000000000 -0500
@@ -38,7 +38,19 @@
        Sophos users: Please take a look at the Sophos install
        script %%PREFIX%%/share/doc/MailScanner/Sophos.install.freebsd
 
-       Please also always look at the port changelog at
-       %%PREFIX%%/share/doc/MailScanner/CHANGES.port
+
+       *****************************************************************
+       A new rc variable called mailscanner_user has been added to the
+       startup script. This is a temporary workaround to address the
+       numerous taint mode problems that are still present in the code. 
+
+       If you changed the "Run As User" variable in MailScanner.conf
+       you MUST also set the same value in /etc/rc.conf.
+
+       i.e. mailscanner_user="postfix"
+
+       The new variable uses su to start the master perl script as the
+       specified user, this effectively disables perl's taint mode.
+       *****************************************************************
 
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