[Bug 1442087] [NEW] don't run as root by default

[Tim Kuijsten]

Public bug reported:

I was surprised that after following
https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/mail-filtering.html this
leaves me with the spamassassin daemon running as root.

This is not of the same standard compared with the secure defaults that
Postfix and Dovecot use. I think this undermines the whole setup and
comes a bit unexpected. I would suggest to create a separate
unprivileged user (maybe spamd?) for running spamd only and keep the
user debian-spamd for updating the rules.

** Affects: spamassassin (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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