Author: Julian King Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] authentication with PAM
> 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.
<grumble> Only cos Sun haven't fixed their code for about 10 years.
As can be seen from the comments in their source code.</grumble>
