Re: [Exim] [nslu@myxomop.com: Bug#126124: exim: promiscuous …

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Author: dman
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To: exim-users
CC: Kevin Sindhu, nslu
New-Topics: [Exim] exim & intetd
Subject: Re: [Exim] [nslu@myxomop.com: Bug#126124: exim: promiscuous relay if running from inetd w/ exim_user=root in cf]
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:19:33AM -0800, Kevin Sindhu wrote:
| Moin Mark!
| Mark Baker schrieb am Monday, den 24. December 2001:

|
| > I believe one should never use exim_user = root at all, but I don't
| > understand why that should lead to it being an open relay.

|
| Its not related to running exim as root at all. However, if you do run
| exim (on Linux only) out of inetd, it does become an open relay.

|
| This has been reported before(check archives). The current solution is
| to run exim as a standalone daemon (-bd).


I just searched the archives and didn't see anything mentioned about
this. Could you provide pointers? Does this affect xinetd too?

-D

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