Spamassasin running as root!

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:

Re: Spamassasin running as root!

Thanks guy! Regards, alydmc From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] man (8) pw pw useradd qscand -s /sbin/nologin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you have in /etc/rc.conf, I have spamd_enable=YES spamd_flags=-u spamd -H /var/spool/spamd In my case, the spamd user got created automagically.

Re: Spamassasin running as root!

created automagically. --- On Fri, 7/25/08, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spamassasin running as root! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 10:37 AM On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:26 PM, lyd mc wrote: How

Re: Spamassasin running as root!

On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:26 PM, lyd mc wrote: How to create a user for spamd correctly or securely? You should have had a spamd user group created automatically from / usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/pkg-install. If you aren't using ports, well, you should start doing so. Regards, --

Re: Spamassasin running as root!

lyd mc 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:

Re: Spamassasin running as root!

--On July 24, 2008 7:26:06 PM -0700 lyd mc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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]: