Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:36:32 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: alydiomc@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamassasin running as root! Message-ID: <245310B42F59D20E86DD2857@Macintosh.local> In-Reply-To: <677836.81175.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <677836.81175.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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--==========7F5C7E520B4D6B22C257========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --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 If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. --==========7F5C7E520B4D6B22C257==========--
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