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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] procmail]> grep exim /etc/inetd.conf > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
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-x 1 root root 466308 sie 15 01:13 /usr/sbin/exim Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216