On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Todd Lyons <tlyons@???> wrote:
> I've hit a major obstacle: We have our maildirs on a Netapp, nfs
> mounted with root squash, and everything owned by a single
> unprivileged user. Exim is running as euid 0, uid for "exim" and the
> path/to/Maildir/ is mode 700 all the way up, and maildirsize is mode
> 600. It would appear that unless I remove root squash for my mail
> servers, my only option is to have a cheap daemon running as that
> unprivileged user which will simply listen on a port for a command, do
> the calculation, and return the answer.
>
> Dammit. I'm right back where we were before I started experimenting.
So embedded perl in Exim doesn't run as the effective Exim user? That doesn't make sense or are you using your perl code some other way?
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