Re: [Exim] unable to set gid or uid

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Author: Norihisa Washitake
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] unable to set gid or uid
Hi Philip, and all,

Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> > > 2002-04-08 01:15:59 unable to set gid=12 or uid=505 (euid=8):
> > >                     system_aliases router

>
> Is the exim binary setuid root?



I think it's NOT.

% ls -lA /usr/local/exim/bin/
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      12  Apr  8 00:09 exim -> exim-4.02-10
> -rwsr-xr-x  1 root root  533266  Apr  8 00:09 exim-4.02-10
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  533266  Apr  8 04:15 exim-4.02-10.daemon


'exim-4.02-10' and 'exim-4.02-10.daemon' is almost the same
but the setuid bit of *.daemon is off. I run exim daemon by:

# ./exim-4.02-10.daemon -bd

so it's not setuid root, isn't it?
(Or do you mean something else?)

Regards,
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Norihisa Washitake <nori@???>