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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Nico Erfurth
CC: Matthew Byng-Maddick, Exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Permission denied when testing a new configure file?
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Nico Erfurth wrote:

> Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:49:23PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> >
> >>Correct. Well, to be pedantic, the OS does the setuid(0), but Exim
> >>quickly reverses it. A quick test with -d shows it:
> >
> >
> > Surely it only does a seteuid(0)... :-)
> >
> > MBM (ducks)
>
> You can't duck enough ;)


You can't be pedantic enough, either, it seems :-)

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