On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, alexus <ale...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mel Flynn > <mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: >> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:18:48 alexus wrote: >>> 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.. >> >> Yes, don't do it. Is proftpd started as root? Then this shouldn't occur, >> although a forum post[1] suggests that mod_cap can fiddle with this. >> >> [1] http://forums.proftpd.org/smf/index.php?topic=1315.0 >> -- >> Mel >> > > if i set User in proftpd.conf to root, then it runs as a root > the other thing is mod_cap has something to do with Linux compatibility w/ > POSIX > I run FreeBSD... > > -- > http://alexus.org/ >
for test purposes i set it to root, but even with that i'm unable to connect to ftp and my tls.log says following May 20 10:16:58 mod_tls/2.2.1[41536]: error locking passphrase into memory: Operation not permitted May 20 10:16:58 mod_tls/2.2.1[41536]: using default OpenSSL verification locations (see $SSL_CERT_DIR environment variable) May 20 10:16:58 mod_tls/2.2.1[41536]: TLS/TLS-C requested, starting TLS handshake May 20 10:17:01 mod_tls/2.2.1[41536]: TLSv1/SSLv3 connection accepted, using cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256 bits) May 20 10:17:01 mod_tls/2.2.1[41536]: Protection set to Private and it hangs... -- 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"
