On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:17:13PM -0500, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote:
> Peter van Dijk wrote:
> >
> > qmail-queue doesn't run as root. It runs as user qmailq. What group
> > this user is in, or what his homedir is, doesn't matter. Permissions
> > on the binary are relevant indeed.
> >
> > Greetz, Peter.
>
> Odd. Why do I have a set-root-bit on my qmail-queue binary with an
> owner of qmailq, then? I understand that it runs as user qmailq; but it
> runs with root's permissions, correct? I have not modified it from the
> installation put in place by the tarball.
There is no such thing as a set-root-bit. There is a setuid bit, and a
setgid bit... their name deescribes their purpose.
Regards.
