Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:37:37 -0700 From: Brian <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: alydiomc@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamassasin running as root! Message-ID: <48893C71.90505@brianwhalen.net> In-Reply-To: <677836.81175.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <677836.81175.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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lyd mc wrote: > 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? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > What do you have in /etc/rc.conf, I have spamd_enable="YES" spamd_flags="-u spamd -H /var/spool/spamd" In my case, the spamd user got created automagically. Brian
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