On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, alexus <ale...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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) > > Check the value for 'user' in proftpd.conf. It will be nobody. Change > it to root. > > -- > > Dyslexics have more fnu. - http://kingsly.net/tmp/fortune.php/1242364116 >
wouldn't it sort of make it more risky in terms of security to run ftpd as root vs nobody? in general daemon do not run as root and thats for a reason.. -- http://alexus.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
