David B Funk wrote:
spamd will not run as root, it is a security risk.
If you start it as root and you do not tell it who you want to run as
(IE leave off the '-u' option) it will automagically switch to user
"nobody".
Actually, spamd will run as root. It seems to run as root perfectly fine
for me
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote:
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> I have found that spamd will not use razor on my system because of
> permissions. Is it safe to run spamd as root?
Mike,
spamd will not run as root, it is a security risk.
If you start it as root and you do not tell it who you want to run as
(IE leave
At 09:43 AM 11/13/2003, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote:
I have found that spamd will not use razor on my system because of
permissions. Is it safe to run spamd as root?
It's not entirely safe to leave it running as root... if you try, spamd
will setuid itself to nobody.
You can however start spamd as root a
I have found that spamd will not use razor on my system because of
permissions. Is it safe to run spamd as root?
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