Re: spamassassin a possible security risk?

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On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 21:13 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
> Spamd can be configured to run as a different user and on FreeBSD at
> least -- I don't run SA on my Fedora box -- it defaults to running as
> user "nobody" if it is invoked as "root" with no "-u [name]" option.

Fedora comes configured to run spamd as root, it then changes it's user-
id to the user supplied by spamc or nobody if that fails.

Tom

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