On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> It's too bad there isn't a way for an unprivileged user to set certain
> macros while still having Exim run privileged.
This has been raised before, but it seems very special-purpose, and
opens the possibility of security loopholes.
> I guess I'd have to
> run another level of indirection to do that - have a setuid program to
> invoke Exim with a -D option.
That seems a safer approach from my point of view. The security of the
feature is then *your* problem. :-)
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