Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@???> probably said:
> > Unless your OS allows non-root users to bind to low ports, this is
> > impossible. It must have root privs, however briefly, to bind to port 25.
> `impossible' is a bit rash :-)
In the context of the question, no it isn't.
> exim can be invoked from a super server such as inetd.
> In this case, exim does not need to bind to a priv port.
> As such, exim need never have root privs.
Not what was asked for.
> Another option would be to listen on a non-priv port, and have a port
> redirector listening on port 25.
Not what was asked for.
> I suspect I could come up with others :-))
All answers to a different question ... you can indeed work around the
problem in different ways, but that isn't what he asked;
] -Provide exim capability to bind ports
] lower than 1024. (via LIDS or something else)
This is an OS problem, not an exim problem, anyway.
P.
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