Author: Patrick Okui Date: To: exim-users CC: Tony Finch, Marc Haber Subject: Re: [exim] Why does exim chdir to user's home directory on message
delivery?
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 13:21, Patrick Okui wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 13:00, Tony Finch wrote:
> > > A bad idea for Debian, or a bad idea for exim?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> I'm guessing you mean a bad idea for exim on Debian?
>
> > Tony, who thinks it's better to be standard than better.
>
> Well, looking at the linked bug report, his problem is with an
> OpenAFS filesystem (where the user home directories are
> stored). Since giving exim a Kerberos ticket, he'd rather not
^^^^^^^^
is not an option
> have it chdir() there at all.
>
> Given that this is a unique setup, a more explicit note in the
> docs that transports always try to chdir() to what they
> believe is the current $HOME would probably be more
> appropriate than changing this (probably expected) behaviour.
>
> My 2 cents.
> --
> patrick
