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 Post subject: spamassassin running as nobody?
Unread postPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:01 pm 
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I've been having fun with users and permissions today - I've just updated a server to run clamav/freshclam/qmail-scanner as root.root instead of qscand.qscand in order to get the FTP upload scanning to work (NOT using ASL kernel -- this is a VPS).

Having done that, I found some oddities with pyzor which were relatively easy to deal with.

However, I noted the following in my logs

Code:
Aug 22 19:52:14 ip147 spamd[1712]: spamd: setuid to root succeeded
Aug 22 19:52:14 ip147 spamd[1712]: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody


Is this normal?

I really, really don't lik running all those things as root. I'm starting to think the risk may be greater than the protection that the FTP scanning might provide.

Thanks,

Faris.

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