On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 07:38:57 -0800 Shaheen Bakhtiar wrote: > Well? I?m glad I?m on this mailing list :P > > I did the same thing, running sa-learn ?spam /spamfolder as root, and > was pondering this very issue. > > I understand the logic behind why it shouldn?t be run as root, the > problem is on FC 22 the spamd user has /sbin/nologin as the shell > in /etc/passwd. Which means in order to run the process as spamd one > has to manual change that to /bin/bash, then, change it back > (/sbin/nologin it self is a security precaution), once the process is > complete.
su -m will run with the current shell