On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, David Monk wrote:
>
> > I see Exim has an option to write to a file as a particular user, but I need
> > Exim to be able to lsearch this file as a specified user in order to verify
> > those aliased addresses.
>
> Exim 4 runs as root while routing, so it should be able to read any
> file. There is no facility for getting it to run as another user at this
> stage. (You can get it to run the system filter as another user, but I
> don't think this is relevant.)
If the file is NFS mounted with root-squash, root on the mail-host
might not be able to read it even though the user can.
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
