Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 13:46:32 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved@gmail.com>, alexus <alexus@gmail.com>, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> Subject: Re: proftpd TLS Message-ID: <200905201346.33032.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <6ae50c2d0905191218mca27c81o67a7e2f0a2a37ca8@mail.gmail.com> References: <6ae50c2d0905171301y2d92a7b1mc3598295de12ecc2@mail.gmail.com> <c1e7523f0905191126o317b254aia654ed83cd141f5@mail.gmail.com> <6ae50c2d0905191218mca27c81o67a7e2f0a2a37ca8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:18:48 alexus wrote: > 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 0.0 0.1 11820 4208 ?? SsJ Sun06PM 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. - http://kingsly.net/tmp/fortune.php/1242364116 > > 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.. Yes, don't do it. Is proftpd started as root? Then this shouldn't occur, although a forum post[1] suggests that mod_cap can fiddle with this. [1] http://forums.proftpd.org/smf/index.php?topic=1315.0 -- Mel
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