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Bug#1032387: aide: Cron job does not send mail with new _aide user

From	Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1032387: aide: Cron job does not send mail with new _aide user
Date	2023-07-17 13:30 +0200
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:27:23AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> From f20ccedef8ba985fcb9766524bc68eae26f2e0cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:07:54 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] dailyaidecheck: Automatically use mail(1) if called from cron
>  via capsh
> 
> The invocation from cron via capsh allows to run set-uid-root commands,
> which might be needed on systems where sendmail is setup as such. The
> systemd service does not currently allow such invocation so we still
> do not let it use mail(1) automatically in that case, as long as we
> are not running as root.

I have committed this patch with a slightly re-worded warning message.
The commit is not yet pushed, and marked as "Closes: #1032387". Please
let me know until July 23 whether this patch will address all issues
left in this bug report so that closing this bug report with the commit
is OK with you.

Greetings
Marc

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Bug#1032387: aide: Cron job does not send mail with new _aide user Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> - 2023-07-17 13:30 +0200
  Bug#1032387: aide: Cron job does not send mail with new _aide user Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> - 2023-07-17 13:40 +0200

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