Re: [Exim] nobody_user?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Toralf Lund
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] nobody_user?
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Toralf Lund wrote:

> BTW, how will pipes in aliases will work with the default config file?
> Or will they work at all? What user is expected to be active at the
> point of alias expansion?


They won't work at all. At the point of alias expansion, Exim is running
as root. However, if you set "user" on the redirect router, and an
filter is encountered, it runs the filter in a subprocess as that user.

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