Public bug reported: I was surprised that after following https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/mail-filtering.html this leaves me with the spamassassin daemon running as root.
This is not of the same standard compared with the secure defaults that Postfix and Dovecot use. I think this undermines the whole setup and comes a bit unexpected. I would suggest to create a separate unprivileged user (maybe spamd?) for running spamd only and keep the user debian-spamd for updating the rules. ** Affects: spamassassin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1442087 Title: don't run as root by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spamassassin/+bug/1442087/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs