On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:08:56 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: 5.04.18 09:06, Amir Caspi wrote: > >spamd running as root doesn't run as root; it downgrades itself to > >"nobody." > > actually, no. it changes to users as needed. This way multiple users > can use spamd with per-user config files.
But if spamc is run as root, which it presumably was here, then spamd drops to nobody which doesn't have a home directory.