Author: patl Date: To: Philip Hazel CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] authentication with PAM
On 4-May-01 at 02:11, Philip Hazel (ph10@???) wrote: > 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.
It might be useful to have a global option to do this, defaulting
to off. (With the comment/doc mentioning the expense when using
NIS or similar distributed user info schemes.)
