Re: [Exim] using -C problems

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Author: Sean Rima
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] using -C problems
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Kirill Miazine stated:

> * Sean Rima <sean@???> [20020307 01:00]:
>> >> User 500 has admin rights and I cannot understand why it works
>> >> with sendmail -q to force delivery of anything in the queued
>> >> inbound but using -C Exim doesn't seem to setuid etc.
>> >
>> > -C may be used by the exim user and root only. It's in the
>> > manual.
>> >
>>
>> I guessed as much but I wanted to be sure. I hate logging in as root
>> and have to log in as root to get to the exim user, so I will have to
>> put something int my diald pre down script.
>
> Read man sudo


Yeah but I dislike this and some of my nightly events connect to the net
and you cannot really use sudo like that. Still I woke up this morning
with no mail in my outbound queue so something worked in the diald
pre-down script :)

Sean
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