On Friday 26 March 2004 05:30 am, Tom Collins wrote:
> > so the only other solution which i could think of was to set that
> > domain's uid/gid as 0/0 in qmail's assign file.  now, what kind of
> > security risks could this setup pose?  i'm brand new to qmail, so i'm
> > not sure (just installed it a few days ago).
>
> Not a good idea.  Any file qmailadmin creates will be owned by root and
> other utilities managing the domain won't be able to change it.

also, qmail treats home directories owned by root as non-existant users and 
will bounce mail going to them.

-Jeremy

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