On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:56:53PM +0200, Juha J?ykk? wrote: > >> On the other hand, if exim is run from inetd (as I do), does it > >> still need to be suid root? Since inetd runs root anyway, there should > bit from exim. Now my original question was: does it (exim) still need > to be suid root? And the question still remains and depends (solely?) > on whether it still can communicate with inetd. Inetd runs exim with
I would assume no setuid-root exim is needed for it to communicate with inetd. > mail's priviledges so giving mail access to any necessary directories > is enough for exim to function - unless there are issues with the > permissions of /var/spool/mail/<insert your favourite username here>. > Now another question: are there? As long as /var/spool/mail/* is writable/owned by the 'mail' user I do not see a problem here. Also check /var/spool/mqueue... if also using outgoing e-mail -- Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 http: maniac.nl, unix-god.[net|org], markjanssen.[com|net|org|nl] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]