On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 06:21:14PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > In fact, you don't mean that it needs to run setuid. It merely needs > to be run _as_ a particular uid. There are several ways of achieving > this other than setuid. Two that I can think of that I'd recommend to > you are: > > * userv, which Wichert has already mentioned.
I must have missed that; do you have a URL? > * Most MTA's can be configured to run particular sets of aliases > etc. as particular uses and/or groups. "most" isn't good enough here. I know from past experience :-) In Elm (which I maintain), I set the configuration to use the 8BITMIME option of MTAs (all of them have this, of course.) Well, I was wrong; they do not all have that, and so bugs reports started coming in and I had to change it. When dealing with stuff that talks to the mail server, the unfortunate reality is that the lowest common set of features is what must be used.
