On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:25:54PM -0200, Bruno Negrão wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm testing POP3 session forwarding and I just could make it work if auth_pop is > running under root's UID and GID. > > Is that true? Can't i run it under a normal user account? >
auth_pop has to normally run under UID 0 GID 0 as it needs to setuid/gid later to switch to the correct user UID/GID. In case of forwarding auth_pop drops the priviledges to qmaild IIRC. I said normally as there should be code to run auth_pop non privileged but then it needs to run under user qmaild group nofiles. I need to make that a little bit cleverer. Btw, if evryting runs under the same user it is possible to run auth_pop also with under that user. -- :wq Claudio
