Re: Unknown user script

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Author: John Horne
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: Unknown user script
> Access rights! The script I was using was tucked away in a source directory.
> I moved it to /tmp and chmod 777. All worked fine! I then chmod 750, set
> owner to exim, group to mail, and in configure set "user = exim" and "group
> = mail" and it failed again. I seems world-read/execute is required.
>

Not so. As Philip pointed out world r/x shouldn't be necessary. I had
included the user (exim) in "never_users". This meant that the user nobody
was used instead to try and execute the script. Since the script wasn't owned
by nobody and didn't have world r/x it failed. Apologies to all.

John.

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