On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, andy wrote:
> Just one question for y'all.
>
> As per the "humorous" thread, none of you are obliged to answer, and if I in any way
>come off as and asshole or idiot feel free to harass me. ( Oh shit! that wasn't an
>asshole thing to say was it? )
>
> Is qmail-popup\qmail-pop3d supposed to run as root?
Yes. It needs to be able to change it's uid/gid to the
authenticated user, and only root can use the seteuid/setuid and
geteuid/getuid calls.
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Regards
Peter
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