Re: [Exim] explicit routing with exim -bm

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著者: Philip Hazel
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To: Bryan Henderson
CC: exim-users
題目: Re: [Exim] explicit routing with exim -bm
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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