On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Niels Ott wrote:
> I use the functions within SMTP AUTH, this is configured somewhere in
> the auth-section. (I don't have my config with me on my laptop ;-)
Exim will be running as "exim" at that point, if you have configured an
Exim user.
> I tried perl_at_start because I read in the docs that Perl would then
> be started with setuid privileges.
> (http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.10/doc/html/spec_10.html#SEC178)
I will try to make the wording clearer. What it means it that Exim is
running as root when it reads the start-up file and when it initializes
the interpreter. (So the start-up file could be root-only-readable, for
example.) However, it doesn't run as a separate process, so when you
call it later, it is run as whatever uid you have at that time.
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