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Description: Don't recommend that spamd runs as nobody
Author: Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>

--- sa-exim-4.2.1.orig/README
+++ sa-exim-4.2.1/README
@@ -147,8 +147,11 @@ anything, you may not want to use SARewr
 
 
 Important:
-You want to run spamd as such:
-/usr/sbin/spamd -d -u nobody -H /var/spool/spamassassin/
+
+You want to run spamd as such (you have to create the spamd user
+yourself):
+
+/usr/sbin/spamd -d -u spamd -H /var/spool/spamassassin/
 
 It may not work if you run spamd with -c (debian default),
 (you shouldn't run spamassassin as root for this purpose anyway (there
@@ -158,7 +161,7 @@ You can edit this in /etc/default/spamas
 /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin (redhat)
 
 With SA 3.x is better, the updated syntax would look like this:
-/usr/sbin/spamd --max-children 50 --daemonize --username=nobody --nouser-config --helper-home-dir=/var/spool/spamassassin/
+/usr/sbin/spamd --max-children 50 --daemonize --username=spamd --nouser-config --helper-home-dir=/var/spool/spamassassin/
 
 
 
--- sa-exim-4.2.1.orig/README.greylisting
+++ sa-exim-4.2.1/README.greylisting
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ let in" range.
 
 FILE SETUP
 ----------
-Make very sure that uid nobody can traverse /var/spool/sa-exim and
-create tuplets writeable by nobody (or whoever you run SA as)
+Make very sure that the user that spamd runs as can traverse and write
+to /var/spool/sa-exim.
 
 Then, setup a cron job to delete tuplets that are older than 14 days for
 whitelisted entries, and 2 days for greylisted entries (or whatever
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ You should install greylistclean.cron in
 call greylistclean and clean up greylisted entries and whitelisted entries
 that haven't been used in a while.
 You can optionally modify it to tweak the cleanup times.
-Note that you need to tweak greylistclean.cron to match the user spamd runs
-as if you aren't using the recommended --username=nobody
+Note that you may need to tweak greylistclean.cron to match the user
+spamd runs as.
 
 
 SA PATCH (SA 2.x)