Re: [Exim] nobody_user?

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Autor: Toralf Lund
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Para: Exim Mailing List
Assunto: Re: [Exim] nobody_user?
Toralf Lund wrote:

> John Jetmore wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Philip Hazel wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Toralf Lund wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> What has happened to the "nobody_user" parameter? I'm using this in
>>>> our
>>>

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>>
>> maybe it's as simple as setting the user/group option on the
>> address_pipe
>> transport, or whatever router routes the mail to a pipe?
>>
>>
> No, I don't think it's that simple. In fact, I think I ended up using
> nobody_user because I tried that wat, and it didn't work right. The
> problem is that I do not want to set user for all pipe deliveries, just
> the ones where the receiver address isn't associated with a real user.
> Differently put, if I specify a user id in the address_pipe setup, pipes
> in the .forward files of real users will also be executed under that id,
> which is *not* what I want.
>
> Maybe I can set a different user in the local_aliases director instead
> (it now has user=root)? I think I had a good reason for not doing the
> earlier, but I've forgotten what it was...


I meant "system_aliases", of course. But perhaps setting a user
different from "root" there has undesirable consequences for the
subsequent routing of messages that are aliased to a real address rather
than a pipe?


- Toralf