spamd parent runs as root?

[Ma...@hbinc.com]

I've created a spamd user, and I'm running spamd with a "--username spamd" option.

ps -aux | grep spamd shows that all the children are running as the spamd user... but the master spamd process is running as root!

Is this expected?

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Re: spamd parent runs as root?

[Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>]

Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com wrote:
> I've created a spamd user, and I'm running spamd with a "--username spamd" option.
> 
> ps -aux | grep spamd shows that all the children are running as the spamd user... but the master spamd process is running as root!
> 
> Is this expected?
> 

Yes, because you've got to be root to bind to port 783.

Thus the master process kicks off a child as root and it setuid's itself to
spamd after it's bound the port.

Apache httpd works the same way.. take a look sometime, there's one running as
root and a bunch running as apache or httpd.