Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 10:13:15 -0400 From: alexus <alexus@gmail.com> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com> Subject: Re: proftpd TLS Message-ID: <6ae50c2d0905200713t7d9c785fs4f6c5ec6db4166de@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905201346.33032.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <6ae50c2d0905171301y2d92a7b1mc3598295de12ecc2@mail.gmail.com> <c1e7523f0905191126o317b254aia654ed83cd141f5@mail.gmail.com> <6ae50c2d0905191218mca27c81o67a7e2f0a2a37ca8@mail.gmail.com> <200905201346.33032.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> wrote: > 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 =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/12= 42364116 >> >> 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=3D1315.0 > -- > Mel > if i set User in proftpd.conf to root, then it runs as a root the other thing is mod_cap has something to do with Linux compatibility w/ = POSIX I run FreeBSD... --=20 http://alexus.org/
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