[ On Wednesday, September 6, 2000 at 10:11:53 (+0100), Nigel Metheringham wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Does Exim have security problems?
>
> Slightly unhelpfully, since this is rather OS specific, Linux has a
> setfsuid() set of calls, that *only* change the effective UID used for
> file access - everything else is still root, such as process
> permissions.
Hmmm..... that's a very interesting approach!
It would certainly make a lot of sense in a micro-kernel type of system
where the filesystem was running as a privileged user process!
I shall have to think of whether this is worth implementing for *BSD....
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