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From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
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--On July 24, 2008 7:26:06 PM -0700 lyd mc <alydiomc@yahoo.com> 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=C2=A0 '-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?=C2=A0
>

man (8) pw

pw useradd qscand -s /sbin/nologin

Paul Schmehl
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