On 2010-12-12 Phil Pennock <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-12-12 at 03:10 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: [...] > > - Kill ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY as discussed, so only root can specify > > arbitrary files on the command line with the -C option. If the Exim > > user uses -C, or uses the -D option to set macros, then root privs > > will be dropped.
> But if the Exim daemon is started as root with -C/-D, isn't this how the > changes are propagated into delivery instances, by having Exim re-exec > itself with the -MC* internal options and *also* passing along the -C/-D > options? Done with child_exec_exim(). > How heavily has this change been tested in conjunction with doing actual > deliveries when the daemon was started as root with -C/-D ? > Eg, are there setups which use things like -DTLS and optionally enable > features this way from the cmdline with init-script config, rather than > direct Exim config? [...] This seems to be the usual way to combine mailscanner with exim. cu andreas -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
