Running as root

[Matt Kettler]

Julian Field wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2006, at 15:02, Darryl DeLao wrote:
> 
>> Is there any dangers to running MailScanner as root?  What user should
>> it run under?
>>
> It needs to run as the same user as your MTA. It does not interact with
> the outside world at all (that's the job of your MTA) so root is pretty
> safe.

Unless of course your AV has a security flaw which can be exploited by feeding
it malformed data. Many AV products have recently had fixes for such holes in
their handling of various compressed or "encrypted" executables.