Re: [exim] 2 smallish security issues

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Autor: Philip Hazel
Datum:  
To: John W. Baxter
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [exim] 2 smallish security issues
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, John W. Baxter wrote:

> If the calling user is root, does Exim still run as the calling user when
> doing the
> exim -be
> command?


Yes.

> If it does, should it,


Yes, I think so. That is a way of testing expansions that are to be run
as root (e.g. while routing).

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