On the other hand, if exim is run from inetd (as I do), does it
still need to be suid root? Since inetd runs root anyway, there should
well this is not a problem. (x)inet works by using stdin/stdout rather than
network ports. This is why you have to tell whatever service you are
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:56:53PM +0200, Juha J?ykk? wrote:
On the other hand, if exim is run from inetd (as I do), does it
still need to be suid root? Since inetd runs root anyway, there should
bit from exim. Now my original question was: does it (exim) still need
to be suid root? And
mail's priviledges so giving mail access to any necessary
directories is enough for exim to function - unless there are issues
with the permissions of /var/spool/mail/insert your favourite
username here. Now another question: are there?
As long as /var/spool/mail/* is writable/owned by
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:45:24PM +1000, Paul Haesler wrote:
snip
.
Cc:
[paul@marge sbin] 2001-11-21 22:41:42 166Vl8-00017q-00 =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] U=paul P=local S=327
2001-11-21 22:41:42 166Vl8-00017q-00 Unable to get root to set
uid and gid for local delivery to paul: uid=1000
On the other hand, if exim is run from inetd (as I do), does it
still need to be suid root? Since inetd runs root anyway, there should
well this is not a problem. (x)inet works by using stdin/stdout rather than
network ports. This is why you have to tell whatever service you are
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:56:53PM +0200, Juha J?ykk? wrote:
On the other hand, if exim is run from inetd (as I do), does it
still need to be suid root? Since inetd runs root anyway, there should
bit from exim. Now my original question was: does it (exim) still need
to be suid root? And
mail's priviledges so giving mail access to any necessary
directories is enough for exim to function - unless there are issues
with the permissions of /var/spool/mail/insert your favourite
username here. Now another question: are there?
As long as /var/spool/mail/* is writable/owned by
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:45:24PM +1000, Paul Haesler wrote:
snip
.
Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sbin] 2001-11-21 22:41:42 166Vl8-00017q-00 =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] U=paul P=local S=327
2001-11-21 22:41:42 166Vl8-00017q-00 Unable to get root to set
uid and gid for local delivery to paul: uid=1000
Juha J?ykk? [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
There is a small point of binding to port 25. Only root can do
that. I have not looked at exim's code, but if run as a stand-alone
daemon (i.e. not from inetd), I would guess it just opens the port as
root and drops the priviledges right away. Someone
Juha J?ykk? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a small point of binding to port 25. Only root can do
that. I have not looked at exim's code, but if run as a stand-alone
daemon (i.e. not from inetd), I would guess it just opens the port as
root and drops the priviledges right away. Someone
I don't know much about exim's guts, but is there a point in starting it
as mail if it's SUID root?
-rwsr-xr-x1 root root 466308 sie 15 01:13 /usr/sbin/exim
There is a small point of binding to port 25. Only root can do
that. I have not looked at exim's code, but if run as a
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:02:30PM +1000, Paul Haesler wrote:
it is a Good Thing to have an MTA which does not run as
root. I found the argument persuasive, and happily installed postifx.
I do miss one thing from exim, however.
Default debian installation of exim runs as mail:
I don't know much about exim's guts, but is there a point in starting it
as mail if it's SUID root?
-rwsr-xr-x1 root root 466308 sie 15 01:13 /usr/sbin/exim
There is a small point of binding to port 25. Only root can do
that. I have not looked at exim's code, but if run as a
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:02:30PM +1000, Paul Haesler wrote:
it is a Good Thing to have an MTA which does not run as
root. I found the argument persuasive, and happily installed postifx.
I do miss one thing from exim, however.
Default debian installation of exim runs as mail:
it is a Good Thing to have an MTA which does not run as
root. I found the argument persuasive, and happily installed postifx.
I do miss one thing from exim, however.
Default debian installation of exim runs as mail:
[paul@marge procmail] grep exim /etc/inetd.conf
smtpstream
it is a Good Thing to have an MTA which does not run as
root. I found the argument persuasive, and happily installed postifx.
I do miss one thing from exim, however.
Default debian installation of exim runs as mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] procmail] grep exim /etc/inetd.conf
smtp
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