Re: setgroups in 1.62

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Author: Jon Morby
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: setgroups in 1.62
> but this was found not to work with all OS. Now, you need to be root to
> run setgroups(). It suggests that somehow Exim isn't starting up as root
> when being called recursively to generate an error message. You don't by
> any chance, have two copies of the binary, one setuid root and the other
> not, and the configuration option exim_path is set to the non-setuid
> one? No, I thought not. Hmm. I wonder what else might be causing this.


*sigh*

exim had some how lost it's setuid bit :(

fixed now. Thanks for the pointer :)
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