On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 22:14 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 15.07.2013 19:51, Benny Pedersen kirjoitti: > > Christian Dysthe skrev den 2013-07-15 15:16: > > > >> Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the > >> logs: > >> spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u > > > > spamd uses default port 783, with is below 1024 imho :=) > > > > only ports over 1023 can run as daemons without started as root > > > > if you like to change the problem, i will say apache does the same > > problem on port 80, is there any secureity problem with that ?, well > > apache start as root yes, but it drops priveledges for port 80 when > > started, if spamd does the same its perfectly ok > > > spamd starts as root anyway, then it changes to the given user. I think > it goes this way. > Yep. Its manual says that if its started as root, for each message it receives it will switch to the user set by the spamc -u option or (default) the user spamc is run under.
Martin
