John Dalbec wrote:
> Is the error message below the result of a security feature? If so, how
> do you suggest working around it? Some features of Exim are impossible
> to test without sending a message "for real". In my case I was testing
> the system_filter_reply_transport and system_filter_user settings.
> Running "exim -bF" does not report an error if the filter runs a "mail"
> command and system_filter_reply_transport is unset.
>
> [jpdalbec@mail03 jpdalbec]$ exim -C tgz/configure.exim jpdalbec@???
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 2003-01-29 09:51:15 Failed to create spool file
> /usr/local/exim/spool/input//18dtYZ-0003MP-00-D: Permission denied
> [jpdalbec@mail03 jpdalbec]$
> Thanks,
> John Dalbec
AFAIK exim will not setuid(0) if an untrusted caller uses -C, so yes,
it's a security feature :)
Nico
