Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:26:06 -0700 (PDT) From: lyd mc <alydiomc@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spamassasin running as root! Message-ID: <677836.81175.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Hi guys, My maillog complain like this: Jul 25 09:40:06 MAIL spamd[67623]: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody Jul 25 09:40:13 MAIL spamd[67623]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.MAIL.67623 for /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory I google it and found out that i need to run spamd with '-u <user>' flag. >From BSD guide website spamd has a flag of '-u qscand'. However, there is no detail on how the qscand user has been created. How to create a user for spamd correctly or securely?help
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