http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3097





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2004-04-14 12:20 -------
Subject: Re:  Make spamd and (possibly) mass-check use Net::Server

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:45:01AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, Kelsey has a good point -- spamd uses setuid() when run
> as root.

No it doesn't.  There's exactly 1 setuid() call (aka: $< = #), and that's
in the initial pre-spawn area if -u is set.  Still the same code.

Everything else is done via seteuid() (aka: $> = #).

> (However changing it to use seteuid() when
> changing root->user, then calling seteuid() to change user->root
> after the request is processed, may work around this)

That's what I did.





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