Johnny Lam writes: 

> Hi,
>  
>       I downloaded courier-0.37.2.  Before building, I was reading over
> the configure scripts, when I noticed that in the courier/configure script,
> there is a check that the courier group is different from the maildrop
> group or else it emits this warning:
>  
>       ERROR: The maildrop and courier group id are the same: $gid
>       ERROR: This is a security hole, they must be different!
>       Use --enable-maildrop-gid, or --with-mailgroup, to set a
>       different maildrop or courier group id.
>  
> (Can someone please explain what the security bug is?  Thanks!) However,
> grepping the sources doesn't seem to indicate that maildrop_gid or
> MAILDROPGID are used anywhere in the Courier sources, and maildrop/uidgid

Correct.  This is no longer applicable. 


-- 
Sam

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