On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:00:34 -0500 Phil Pennock wrote:
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> You didn't read README.UPDATING or the announcement for 4.73?
Yes, maybe I misunderstand it :-(
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> See README.UPDATING for more.
| * The Exim run-time user can no longer be root; this was always
| strongly discouraged, but is now prohibited both at build and
| run-time. If you need Exim to run routinely as root, you'll need to
| patch the source and accept the risk. Here be dragons.
I have EXIM_USER=ref:exim in Local/Makefile.
User "exim" is uid 103 in /etc/passwd.
But the binary is
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 864428 Feb 9 11:27 exim-4.74
Setuid to bind to port 25, I guess? Or should I remove it?
--Frank Elsner
