Re: [Exim] initgroups() when dropping privilege?

I just thought that if Exim did an initgroups() then I could just add
the Exim user to the sympa group and not have to change the group
ownership on the file whenever I install an update.
Thanks,
John

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> ouch
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> thats why i use mailman :)
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> John Dalbec writes on 10/11/2003 12:04 AM:
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>> The post-install script for the RPM contains these commands:
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>> chown sympa.sympa /etc/mail/sympa_aliases
>> chmod 0640 /etc/mail/sympa_aliases
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>> Regardless of what group the sympa user belongs to, I still have to
>> "chgrp exim /etc/mail/sympa_aliases" after installing it for Exim to
>> be able to read the file when it's verifying addresses. No, I don't
>> install it _that_ often, but it's a pain to have to remember all these
>> extra steps when I do.
>>
>> John
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