Ronny Haryanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 02-Aug-2000, Dave Sill wrote:
I don't think it's quite as secure as qmail
Would you care to shed some light on why you don't think so?
Two reasons:
1) Postfix only uses a single uid. qmail uses six.
2) Wietse's code is buggier than Dan's. Check the
On 02-Aug-2000, Dave Sill wrote:
1) Postfix only uses a single uid. qmail uses six.
Why is using more than one uid better? What sort of security problem
would using one uid potentially pose?
2) Wietse's code is buggier than Dan's. Check the historical record.
(To be fair, *everyone's* code
The multiple UIDs provide a few failsafes, if nothing else, whereby one
broken / buggy / replaced binary can't do damage to files it doesn't own.
DJB has comments about this in the readmes, if I'm not mistaken.
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Ronny Haryanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 2 August 2000 at 09:35:52 -0500
On 02-Aug-2000, Dave Sill wrote:
I don't think it's quite as secure as qmail
Would you care to shed some light on why you don't think so? Not to
ignite flames but for informational purposes. I use both qmail
