From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 19 19:18:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B977F1065672 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 19:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexus@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692988FC12 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 19:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexus@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so2518639ywe.13 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 12:18:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3HG0ncmrbEAjAOYw82NXgiOqaQRF8djTLXemivat5RQ=; b=LJTQG3+VwKkN8rOXsAqTqO2Q7NlU55KherBvXcNjNxbwCEoPZG3uba0ouWrVOJ7WKr Xu+IGD14njSziymDA1Bgushkq3woDO0W6hNq9vl0v+kEND8cYB4doBB3+1He5XTRdfc+ kRLLYEXJ+BZXXIrERdse0er59RcjijCdTBt8g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=S1qfYIJOEafP1gIoopJnGyfbXmDf1tz25Sdf2UDW/KzidrAJfnXXJOdjzn4Be9W4fY RhiCfeccg2z9qeutUDP6rOw8Z7vX89A0ZlJxmlbr7z+BIka+zevQNI1Rxxs5dRdUxaTi 52qcUpqUhkdsPvQxHa1k4M+p3UdOuIxBTn9Fs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.128.2 with SMTP id f2mr833219ybn.245.1242760728830; Tue, 19 May 2009 12:18:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <6ae50c2d0905171301y2d92a7b1mc3598295de12ecc2@mail.gmail.com> <4A115183.8080100@gmx.com> <6ae50c2d0905191044r4767b9a6pb824e4c70cbdffa6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:18:48 -0400 Message-ID: <6ae50c2d0905191218mca27c81o67a7e2f0a2a37ca8@mail.gmail.com> From: alexus To: Mehul Ved Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , Nikos Vassiliadis Subject: Re: proftpd TLS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:18:50 -0000 On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, alexus 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/