(cc'ing users list since there's nothing private in here) On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:55:14PM -0500, Brian Z wrote: > I thought it was safe to run spamd as root?
Running the spamd parent as root is fine, but the children won't run a message through as root as a security paranoia measure. So if root runs spamc, it calls spamd and says it's root, and the spamd child goes "I'm not going to run as root!" > Is there some other setup i need to do? It really depends what you're doing. If root is the only user that will ever call spamd -- then setup SA in site-wide mode and run as a non-root user, disable per-user configs and dbs, etc. If you are doing things in per-user mode, and root is just calling spamd because root is getting mail -- either a) have root call spamc with "-u some_username" as appropriate, or b) as most places do, alias root mail to be delivered to a different user/address. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "What is a lie but the truth in masquerade." - Byron
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