Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: Exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] EXIM_USER value in Makefile during building
Wei Wang wrote:
> I want to install exim on my linux box and expect for every user on this box to
> use exim. In the Local/Makefile, what should I specify EXIM_USER?
>
> I tried EXIM_USER=exim but get an error during "make" that says "User exim does not exist".
> Should I use "root" instead?
NO!
Either create the exim-user, or use user mail. The EXIM_USER-setting
sets the default-user that will be used to run exim, running exim as
root is a bad idea...
