On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 06:26:08AM +0800, W B Hacker said: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 02:41:47AM +0800, W B Hacker said: > >> Peter Bowyer wrote: > >>> On 12/05/2009, Laurent Le Moine <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 982424 août 13 2008 /usr/sbin/exim > >>> The exim binary needs the suid bit set. > >>> > >>> Peter > >>> > >> '... when used on Linux' > > > > 'when you want deliveries to run as a user other than the user the > > listener runs as' > > > > It's nothing to do with Linux vs. BSD. Please keep editor/OS/etc wars > > in the pub where they belong. > > Have you looked at the OP's problem?
Yes. > Are you aware that Jason's 'C1' config doesn't even make a 'user' choice in > the > delivery phase? Hard-coded nor lookup. Take a look at what check_local_user does. > ... or that files in /var/log do NOT ordinarily change ownership? "Couldn't chown message log /var/spool/exim/msglog//1M3qaK-0000iG-0v" is not in /var/log, and is not a log file. > Did you miss that the OP's file ownerships were at variance with those > Jason's > C1 config and a 'common' Exim conf expect? EG: 'exim:exim' The only thing not owned by exim was the binary itself. Not really a problem. > Suggest *less* time in that pub. Before we both get all stroppy about this, let's both take a step back. The OP is clearly new to exim. The normal install is setuid root to enable delivering as different users to /var/mail/$local_part. When you suggested to a new user that exim doesn't need to be suid root, I wanted to make the point that in most normal use cases, it really does, regardless of which kernel you run. I apologize if I got your back up - all I was trying to do was keep a new user from following a more difficult path to usefulness than they need to. Enough from me on this one, I think. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | : The hierarchy is excessive. So is | | [email protected] | the anarchy. :-) -- Larry Wall in | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | <[email protected]> | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
