Ralf Hildebrandt:
> In the absence of a user context, the local(8) daemon uses the owner
> rights of the :include: file or alias database. When those files are
> owned by the superuser, delivery is made with the rights specified
> with the default_privs configuration parameter.
>
> That's probably what you're seeing.
> Make a sep. alaias file, make it owned by nottheoilrig and it should
> work.
You need to set the ownership (once) for the aliases source file
AND for the .db output file. After that, postalias/newaliases will
work as follows: if invoked by root, it drops privileges to the
owner of the aliases source file. If invoked by any other user, it
will run as that user.
Wietse
