Re: Which is better - tcpserver running as root or checkpassword setuid root?

[Claudio Nieder]

Hi,

> b) have tcpserver run as a nobody, thus have qmail-popup run as a

On all Unix I know, you couldn't do that, because tcpserver has to bind
to port 110 for pop, and only root has the permission to bind to ports
below 1024.
                                claudio
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