Spamassasin running as root!

[Brian]

lyd mc wrote:
> Hi guys,
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> My maillog complain like this:
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> Jul 25 09:40:06 MAIL spamd[67623]: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody
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> Jul 25 09:40:13 MAIL spamd[67623]: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.MAIL.67623 for /nonexistent/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock: No such file or directory
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> I google it and found out that i need to run spamd with '-u <user>' flag.
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> >From BSD guide website spamd has a flag of  '-u qscand'. However, there is no detail on how the qscand user has been created.
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> How to create a user for spamd correctly or securely?   
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What do you have in /etc/rc.conf, I have
spamd_enable="YES"
spamd_flags="-u spamd -H /var/spool/spamd"

In my case, the spamd user got created automagically.

Brian