Re: [EXIM] group membership for files run using .forward

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Rufus evison
CC: Exim Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] group membership for files run using .forward
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Rufus evison wrote:

> This meant that www couldn't be a member of everyone's group to read their
> parsed mail, so the group (au) was created, and everyone was made a member
> of that. Thus when the program writes a file it needs to change the group to
> au. Unfortunately when the program is run by exim it has uid ac gid ac but
> is not a member of the groups ac is a member of, and so cannot use chgrp to
> change the group of the file.


Look at the various "group" and "initgroups" options in the drivers.
There may be some configuration that does what you want.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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