* varad gupta <[email protected]>: > Hi > > A colleague asked me a question to which I had not given much thought before.
That happens from time to time :) > We all know that most postfix daemons/services run as unpriviliged > users (apart from local and virtual) but the master daemon runs with > root privileges? Yes. > Is it not a risk running master as root (the same reason for running > other processes as unprivileged) ? It must bind to ports < 1024 AND it must be able to spawn processes as other, unprivileged users. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 [email protected] | http://www.charite.de
