On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:02:28AM +0530, varad gupta wrote:
> Thanx for all the replies - I now understand the reason for master
> daemon to run with superuser privileges. They were really helpful.
>
> But then, is postfix not running the same risk as "sendmail" ?
No.
> Does it mean, that unless run in a chroot environment, postfix is
> susceptible to the same risks as sendmail and gives an attacker
> capability of causing similar damage (despite having a far better
> system of tasks divided amongst various unprivileged processes
> designed to perform specific tasks) ?
No.
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Viktor.
