Re: [Exim] can I use exim filters if I'm not the admin?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: dman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] can I use exim filters if I'm not the admin?
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, dman wrote:

> | Set    security=unprivileged    in your Exim configuration.

>
> I tried this, but it didn't work. Exim still wants to be suid root so
> it can then switch to my UID/GID.


Hmm. It should be possible. I do it regularly when testing Exim on
machines where I do not have root access. Maybe there is an issue with
groups. Are you in more than one group? Are you running in a group other
than your default group when trying this?

> It would be nice if there was a configuration option to set in the
> Makefile that would disable all UID checking and changing.


security=unprivileged is supposed to do this.


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