The multiple UIDs provide a few failsafes, if nothing else, whereby one broken / buggy / replaced binary can't do damage to files it doesn't own. DJB has comments about this in the readmes, if I'm not mistaken. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronny Haryanto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 02-Aug-2000, Dave Sill wrote: > > 1) Postfix only uses a single uid. qmail uses six. > > Why is using more than one uid better? What sort of security problem > would using one uid potentially pose?
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