[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#658665: Bug#658665: clamav-daemon: assumes clamav uid and gid are the same

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Matt Taggart said:
> Package: clamav-daemon
> Version: 0.97.3+dfsg-1~lenny1
> 
> Somewhere in clamav-daemon it's assuming that the clamav uid and gid are
> the same. If I remove /var/run/clamav/clamav.ctl and then restart clamav,
> I get this
> 
> /var/run/clamav# ls -la clamd.ctl
> s---------  1 clamav postdrop    0 Feb  4 15:07 clamd.ctl
> 
> On my system the clamav user has uid 108 and the postdrop group has gid 108.
> 
> When I set them to both use the same number then it works
> 
> srw-rw-rw-  1 clamav clamav     0 Feb  4 15:58 clamd.ctl

Can you send the output of `getent passwd clamav` ?

Cheers,
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