Hi,
> When spamassassin is running in daemon mode (spamd) as root, > the default behaviour is to setuid to the user running spamc. This > lets spamd to load and examine the per-user configuration files as > the user. So by default, the effective UID is sent to spamd from > spamc. This is only necessary when you have a 1:1 mapping between email recipients and users on the system, and not at all useful when there is a virtual user setup via database or MySQL. Even if you are in a non-virtual setup, the question is if users really use their own configuration files for spamassassin, or if they rather rely on the admin to configure SA correctly. If the main usage scenario of spamassassin on debian installations is virtual user databases, then the default could be changed to let spamd run the children as debian-spamd. ---- I adjusted /etc/default/spamassassin and ajusted OPTIONS: OPTIONS="--username=debian-spamd --group debian-spamd ..." -- Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Weiske -=≡ Geeking around in the name of science since 1982 ≡=-
