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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