http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4086





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005-02-07 11:29 -------
Subject: Re:  When run as nobody, child processess get root privileges

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:11:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually, there's a different issue here; if I recall correctly, spamd's
> children run as ruid=root euid=root when they're *not* processing a message, 
> so
> that they can switch to other users' UIDs during a scan.

IIRC, in 3.0, if -u is given on the commandline, that should be the user
used for parent and children.

In 3.1, the parent will always be root, and the children will be the -u
user.  (this is to standardize our behavior with the rest of the world,
and allow things like HUP to actually work...)





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