Re: sendmail -bi (again)

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Nigel Metheringham
CC: Robert Black, exim-users
Subject: Re: sendmail -bi (again)
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> Very definitely it should be run as the invoking user.
> Giving users the capability of running (a possibly non-existant)
> program as root is not good. The ypmake stuff should be run as root
> anyhow, so there is no need to give it extra privaleges.


Oh, sorry. I would confine its use to an exim "admin" user, of course.

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