Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:18:48 -0400 From: alexus <alexus@gmail.com> To: Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> Subject: Re: proftpd TLS Message-ID: <6ae50c2d0905191218mca27c81o67a7e2f0a2a37ca8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c1e7523f0905191126o317b254aia654ed83cd141f5@mail.gmail.com> References: <6ae50c2d0905171301y2d92a7b1mc3598295de12ecc2@mail.gmail.com> <4A115183.8080100@gmx.com> <6ae50c2d0905191044r4767b9a6pb824e4c70cbdffa6@mail.gmail.com> <c1e7523f0905191126o317b254aia654ed83cd141f5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, alexus <alexus@gmail.com> wrote: >> i start it as a root, but it switchs to non-root >> >> nobody 52346 =C2=A00.0 =C2=A00.1 11820 =C2=A04208 =C2=A0?? =C2=A0SsJ =C2= =A0Sun06PM =C2=A0 0:00.66 >> proftpd: (accepting connections) (proftpd) > > Check the value for 'user' in proftpd.conf. It will be nobody. Change > it to root. > > -- > > Dyslexics have more fnu. =C2=A0- http://kingsly.net/tmp/fortune.php/12423= 64116 > wouldn't it sort of make it more risky in terms of security to run ftpd as root vs nobody? in general daemon do not run as root and thats for a reason.. --=20 http://alexus.org/
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