On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Is this not a documentation bug then? According to the docs for
> '-C': "a caller other than root or the Exim user, and the list is
> different ... gives up its root privilege immediately". What you
> describe is just "a caller other than root...".
Depends on how your Exim is compiled. The full paragraph in the spec
reads thus:
When this option is used by a caller other than root or the Exim user,
and the list is different from the compiled-in list, Exim gives up its
root privilege immediately, and runs with the real and effective uid
and gid set to those of the caller. However, if ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is
defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege is retained for -C only if
the caller of Exim is root. This option is not set by default.
How was your Exim compiled?
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