On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:39:44 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| And there are probably just as many situations when the RESTRICT is  
| abused. I can vaguely recall only one such example: either vpopmail
| or courier-imap refuse to compile *not* as root which is silly.

If that's really the case, start filing QA bugs. Unless, of course,
there's a non-silly reason for it.

| Anyway, what is userpriv? Just a useless safety feature? Why have it
| at all?

It's not useless. It's another way of protecting against accidental
screwups.

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Ciaran McCreesh
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