On Fri, 16 May 1997, Jay Denebeim wrote:
> Barring that, it sounds to me like you're either going to have to switch
> back and forth into root as the UID, or run down the passwd file looking
> for .forwards and .procmailrcs before giving up root.
In general, it doesn't know it's a home directory. You can say
require_files = /anything/you/like/$local_part
for some local_part that is not a login id at all (name of mailing list,
for example) so it ain't even that simple.
Actually, Exim hasn't totally given up root when processing
require_files; it has only done so using seteuid(), so that it can get
it back in order to use setuid() to do local deliveries. It could be
changed to ensure that it is root when searching for require_files.
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