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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