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Launching a manual scan (fsanalyze) as a non-root user fails with an error message on Linux Security 64 - F-Secure Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h3 data-version="7" data-article="000015618" data-id="issue">Issue:</h3> <p>I launched a manual scan(fsanalyze) as a non-root user in Linux Security 64(LS64) and it fails with the following error:<br><br>fsanalyze: failed to connect to pmd:failed to connect to ctrl socket: /opt/f-secure/linuxsecurity/var/lspmd/run/socket: Permission denied</p> <h3 data-id="resolution">Resolution:</h3> <p></p><p>When a non-root user executes the fsanalyze command, “Permission denied” is output, the file will still be scanned by the <i>fsanalyze</i> tool.<br><br>Here is a sample output:</p> <pre class="code codeBlock" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0"><br>[azlaaz@ip-192-168-175-229 Desktop]$ /opt/f-secure/linuxsecurity/bin/fsanalyze --list test.txt<br>fsanalyze: failed to connect to pmd:failed to connect to ctrl socket: /opt/f-secure/linuxsecurity/var/lspmd/run/socket: Permission denied<br>test.txt: result=clean<br> <br>Engine versions: F-Secure Corporation Aquarius/18.0.790/2021-08-25_02 F-Secure Corporation Hydra/6.0.391/2021-08-25_01 F-Secure Corporation FMLib/17.0.607.475 (cf1875a)/2020-04-07_01 fsicapd/2.0.202<br> <br>1 files scanned</pre> <p>The impact of this error is that alerts (scan errors and detections) will not be sent to the Policy Manager and syslog. Therefore for example, if a non-root user scans an eicar file using the <i>fsanalyze</i> tool, the detection log will not be sent to syslog and Policy Manager. It will only be shown on the terminal for this non-root user to see.<br><br>The known issue is also being recorded in the LS64 <a rel="nofollow" href="https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/117646/linux-security-64-change-log/p2">changelog</a> under the latest component update on 18 Aug.<br><br><b>Known Issues:</b><br>・Scanning files as a non-root user using fsanalyze command-line utility cause error message to be shown.<br> </p> <p>Article no: 000015618</p> </article> </main>