On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:54:17AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > At 12:33 PM 11/12/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I don't understand the "that was done with Windows 2003 in mind". > >Setting the uid to 18 in exim seems counterproductive in that environment. > > The problem I was addressing is that on 2003 users create a privileged > account with an arbitrary uid (up to now). On the other hand Exim (which is > suid on a real Unix system) enters a restricted mode if the uid isn't a > predefined hard coded value (0 on Unix, 18 in Cygwin). So I have a front > end that setuid to 18 if the real user is privileged. The main exim code only > sees 18 and behaves without restrictions.
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