Re: [Exim] Does Exim have security problems?

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Greg A. Woods
CC: Exim Users Mailing List, Philip Hazel
Subject: Re: [Exim] Does Exim have security problems?
woods@??? said:
> 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!


Its actually there as a left over from the userspace nfsd, which
setfsuid()'s when accessing disk data to send out to an nfs client.

    Nigel.
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