spamassassin running as nobody?
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:01 pm
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
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.
Having done that, I found some oddities with pyzor which were relatively easy to deal with.
However, I noted the following in my logs
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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
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.