Re: [exim] exim running user and group

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Author: J Xu
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim running user and group
> > From: Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@???>
> To: exim-users@???
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:42:21 +0200
> Subject: Re: [exim] exim running user and group
>
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 18:07, J Xu wrote:
> > I am wondering if exim code can be changed so that
> the
> > running user/group will not be compiled into the
> > binary, instead the running user/group can be
> picked
> > up from a configuration file.
>
> But you *can* do that. The user name and group name
> compiled in are merely
> default values. You're looking for the settings
> exim_user and exim_group
> (which can be set numerically, too). See chapter 14
> of the specification.


Read the chapter and find it, thanks for your kind
reminder. And I just found that the exim_user and
exim_group options have been there for a long time,
even for v4.10. I wonder how I did not dig it out. :)

J
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