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/ _______________________________________________ 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"