Re: [Exim] authentication with PAM

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tamas TEVESZ
CC: Gabor Gludovatz, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] authentication with PAM
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:

> i think exim either does
> not initialize the supplementary groups correctly if at all. is this
> really the case, or, as usual, was it my PEBKAC ?


Exim does not initialize supplementary groups. Note the existence of the
"initgroups" option for deliveries etc. However, it doesn't initialize
them for its own uid. On some operating systems, in certain
configurations (e.g. Solaris using NIS), running initgroups() is a
really expensive operation.

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