that's not what he meant, exactly. correctly-designed programs running = under UNIX that need superuser privileges use that privilege only to initially access protected resources, and then divest themselves = of the extra rights once they have done whatever it was they needed them for. UNIX maintains several user and group IDs per = process for the express purpose of permitting (and controlling) this behavior.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Behalf Of Michael Schwarz Sent: Thursday 24 July 2003 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Re: Starting Xmail as unprivelidged user Hi Patrick when i remember right... To use the priviligated ports from 1 to 1024 a program must have = root-rights.=20 On xmailserver.org see: HowTo non-root XMail - How to run XMail with a non root user account by = Sergey Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.spectr.org/sergey/HowTo-Chrooted-XMail.html Hope it helps. Bye Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Behalf Of Patrick Andry Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 4:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Starting Xmail as unprivelidged user I'm sure that this question has been asked before, but is there a = reason why=20 Xmail runs as root, and does not drop to an unpriveledged account after=20 starting? Just curious. --=20 Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a = woman. -- Kirk, "Conscience of the King", stardate unknown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the = body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to = [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the = body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to = [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
