On 12/4/2012 10:21 AM, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2012-12-04 at 07:15 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> The email vanishes when I try this. If however I run it out to a file
>> can then cat the file from the command line through the same filter it
>> works. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
> Trying to run code as root?
>
>> spf_sucks_deliver:
>> driver = pipe
> [...]
>> group = root
>> user = root
> >From src/EDITME (the template for Local/Makefile):
> ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------
> # Although Exim is normally a setuid program, owned by root, it refuses to run
> # local deliveries as root by default. There is a runtime option called
> # "never_users" which lists the users that must never be used for local
> # deliveries. There is also the setting below, which provides a list that
> # cannot be overridden at runtime. This guards against problems caused by
> # unauthorized changes to the runtime configuration. You are advised not to
> # remove "root" from this option, but you can add other users if you want. The
> # list is colon-separated. It must NOT contain any spaces.
>
> # FIXED_NEVER_USERS=root:bin:daemon
> FIXED_NEVER_USERS=root
> ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------
>
> I certainly hope that you haven't removed root from FIXED_NEVER_USERS.
>
> -Phil
>
>
>
Hi Phil,
Thanks for your help. Do you need to be root to use exim -bS ? If so
I'll need to be root.
