Re: spamassassin a possible security risk?

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On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 21:36 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
> Not on my FreeBSD machine:
> 
> Oct 18 21:27:30 amayatra spamd[51657]: info: setuid to root succeeded
> Oct 18 21:27:30 amayatra spamd[51657]: Still running as root: user not
> specified with -u, not found, or set to root.  Fall back to nobody.

Looks like you are ignoring two important security recommendations:
1.) never work as root
2.) root get's no mail

Tom

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