On 8 Oct 2002, Paul Dermody wrote:
> is it possible to have create_directory create part of the path as one
> user ie mail, and other as the user?
>
> example
>
> /var/spool/mail/domain as mail
> /var/spool/mail/domain/user as user
No.
> have looked through the docs and do not see anything that sticks out,
> and am still searching the archives. will probably open up the source
> code here in a second and see if i can find a way in there if i have
> to.
You will find it very hard to find a way. The reason is that Exim
(version 4) changes uid to the user using setuid() before running the
transport. There is no way it can get back any privilege.
Wait a minute. I'm writing rubbish. There is a "setup" function for the
transport that is called as root. This is used for expanding quota
strings, so they can reference files that the user cannot. I suppose you
could add some option that was referenced in the setup function, and use
it to specify a directory to be created. If you really wanted to, you
could fork and do the job under a different uid.
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