On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Ville Herva wrote: > My mistake was that I thought spamd flag "--user-config" means it will > execute with the config of the user that calls spamc.
You aren't wrong, exactly -- but the user that spamd runs as (in this case, "spamc") must have sufficient privileges to setuid() to the user identity passed by spamc to spamd. That usually means you either have to run spamd as root, or use virtual user configs (--virtual-config-dir).
