proftpd TLS

[alexus]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, alexus <alexus at 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.
>
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>

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..

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