proftpd TLS

[Mel Flynn]

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 21:18:48 alexus wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dyslexics have more fnu.  - http://kingsly.net/tmp/fortune.php/1242364116
>
> 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=1315.0
-- 
Mel