[Clamav-users] clamdscan / results in "ACCESS DENIED"

[Peter A Farago]

I recently switched from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2. At the same 
time I upgraded to clamav 0.80. I have been using 'clamscan /' to scan 
my system in cron.daily. I am now running the clamd daemon and have 
changed from to 'clamscan /' to 'clamdscan /'.

I am getting  "access denied" messages  from clamdsan. I guess this is 
not surprising since I have not changed the user=clamav in clamd.conf. 
If I change the user=root then the scan completes as expected.

I had the same problem with clamav 0.75 on Fedora Core 2 but clamdscan 
0.75 works without a "user=" line in clamav.conf under Fedora Core 1.

My questions are:
1) is it necessary to set user=root in clamd.conf to scan  / and, if 
not, please describe any better alternatives
2) can clamdscan damage my system if I run clamd as root (assuming that 
clamdscan and clamd have not been tampered with)

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