Re: [exim] Advice on patching Exim to be root for Exim -C co…

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: mark david mcCreary
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Advice on patching Exim to be root for Exim -C config-file
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, mark david mcCreary wrote:
>
> I want to see if I can clean things up a bit, and run just one
> Exim binary, so I'm thinking of patching Exim to keep root when
> invoked with -C config-file.
>
> Would anybody want to advise me not to do this ?


Have a look at the ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX compile-time option. You might add an
ALT_CONFIG_ANYONE option which only retains root for configuration files
under the secure prefix.

Tony.
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