Milter-greylist

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:00:12AM -0800, H Li wrote:
> I installed milter_greylist 1.6 on my fc3 linux
> system,  It looks running well.  My question is:
> should I run it as root or as smmsp?  Currently, I run
> it as root. I tried to run it as smmsp, but it seems
> that it does not do anything.  

It's because it can't write anymore to the dump file, which is
owned by root because you already ran milter-greylist as root.

> What should I do if I want to run it as smmsp in
> addition to uncomment the line 
> #user "smmsp"
> in the config file greylist.conf?  
> What are the advantages and disadvantages of running
> it as smmsp or as root?

Running as non root is better on the security front if a
security hole is discovered in milter-greylist.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...