Re: [EXIM] 1.92 special spool permissions?

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Author: Harald Meland
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To: Sherwood Botsford
CC: Exim List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] 1.92 special spool permissions?
[Sherwood Botsford]

> The following steps solve the problem.
>
> 1. chown mail /opt/exim/bin/exim
> 2. chmod u+s /opt/exim/bin/exim
> (On this system chown clears the setuid flag)
>
> 3. rm -rf /var/spool/exim
> 4. mkdir /var/spool/exim
> 5. chown mail /var/spool/exim
>
> Is this likely to get me into other trouble?


Exim won't be able to bind to port 25 when running with a non-zero
uid. If you're running exim from inetd, and let inetd (running as
root) do the binding for you, this won't be a problem. Otherwise, it
most likely will get you into trouble...

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Harald

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