At 12:08 PM 4/27/99 +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>+ Marlon Anthony Abao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>| qmail 14256 invoked by uid 0
>|
>| Is this normal? if not, under what circumstances would this happen?
>|
>| Received: (qmail 14256 invoked by uid 0); 27 Apr 1999 01:00:20 -0000
>| Received: from muncher.math.uic.edu (131.193.178.181)
>| by mail1.philonline.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 1999 01:00:20 -0000
>
>Looks to me like you're running qmail-smtpd as root. Run it as qmaild
>instead, for example employing the -u and -g flags of tcpserver.
>
>- Harald
Harald,
here's my invocation. what's wrong with it? 301 being the uid of qmaild.
usr/local/bin/tcpserver -c 400 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 301 -g nofiles 0
smtp \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
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this is a copy of the headers of a mail i got from hotmail. is my
invocation a possible security risk?
Received: (qmail 3966 invoked from network); 27 Apr 1999 10:59:36 -0000
Received: from law-f71.hotmail.com (HELO hotmail.com) (209.185.131.134)
by 203.176.16.120 with SMTP; 27 Apr 1999 10:59:36 -0000
Received: (qmail 26509 invoked by uid 0); 27 Apr 1999 10:57:35 -0000
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from 208.169.158.225 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP;
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 03:57:35 PDT
thanks.
-marlon
>PS. And please don't post rich text to a public mailing list.
>The annoyance factor almost caused me to skip over your message.
for this i apologize :(
