Bug 143190

Summary:	Spamassassin (spamd) should run as non-root
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Milan Kerslager <milan.kerslager>
Component:	spamassassin	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Milan Kerslager 2004-12-17 08:54:36 UTC

See bug #143189 for more info.

When spamd is run as root, config files (like Bayes database) are
inaccessible because they are in /root/.spamassassin and spamd
fallback to nobody.

Comment 1 Chip Turner 2004-12-19 23:11:23 UTC

those are root's configs.  normal users will use their own configs. 
what behavior are you seeing that leads you to suspect otherwise?