Russ Allbery writes:
> Simon Casady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have never understood this one. The obvious answer is to put code
> > into qmail-start to read the password file for the proper ids and pass
> > them on to the programs it starts. No config files, standard Unix
> > functions, no problems with binary installs.
>
> And a potential network access on start to do NIS lookups.
Indeed, this would be a bad idea. Better: extract them from UIDs
stored in the queue filesystem. If you can't trust the ownership of
local files, you can't trust *anything* (chown $USER /etc/passwd;echo
'0::0:::::' >>/etc/passwd).
http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~bguenter/distrib/qmail+patches/autouidgid.patch
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