Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:44:22 -0400 From: alexus <alexus@gmail.com> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: proftpd TLS Message-ID: <6ae50c2d0905191044r4767b9a6pb824e4c70cbdffa6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A115183.8080100@gmx.com> References: <6ae50c2d0905171301y2d92a7b1mc3598295de12ecc2@mail.gmail.com> <4A115183.8080100@gmx.com>
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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> wrote: > alexus wrote: >> >> i just enable TLS for my proftpd and in tls.log I'm getting following >> messages >> >> mod_tls/2.2.1[45739]: error locking passphrase into memory: Operation >> not permitted >> mod_tls/2.2.1[45739]: TLS/TLS-C requested, starting TLS handshake > > From the error message, I can suspect that proftpd tries to > use mlock(2) to lock some page in physical memory. That's > typical behavior with programs dealing with sensitive data, > as passwords. The mlock system call can only by used by the > superuser. Is proftpd running with superuser privileges? > > Nikos > i start it as a root, but it switchs to non-root nobody 52346 0.0 0.1 11820 4208 ?? SsJ Sun06PM 0:00.66 proftpd: (accepting connections) (proftpd) -- http://alexus.org/
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