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Stephen C
Asked: 2014-02-03 16:20:05 +0800 CST

What accounts does clamav use on different Linux distros

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I'm trying to fix a problem in a Chef recipe for installing / configuring ClamAV which is caused by the recipe using the wrong default user/group name for the clam service account on some platforms.

It seems that:

  • On CentOS 6, the service account is "clam"
  • On Fedora 19, the service account is "clamupdate"
  • On Ubuntu 12.04, the service account is "clamav".

Based on this, I'm guessing that the pattern can be generalized (in Chef terms) to:

  • Debian family - "clamav"
  • RHEL family - "clam"
  • Fedora family - "clamupdate"

Questions:

  1. Have I over-simplified this?

  2. Does anyone know of any examples that contradict this? (Lets assume that we are talking about the "recommended" RPMs / DEBs for the respective platforms ...)

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