From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 02:58:54 2008 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 62F031065679 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:58:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4988C8FC23 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:58:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from [10.152.145.166] ([72.165.115.225]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K4J00BH7JADNW60@asmtp020.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Sender: cswiger@mac.com Message-id: From: Chuck Swiger To: alydiomc@yahoo.com In-reply-to: <677836.81175.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:37:25 -0700 References: <677836.81175.qm@web52201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamassasin running as root! 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: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:58:54 -0000 On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:26 PM, lyd mc wrote: > How to create a user for spamd correctly or securely? You should have had a spamd user & group created automatically from / usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/pkg-install. If you aren't using ports, well, you should start doing so. Regards, -- -Chuck