Re: nobody/nogroup - ITP maildir-bulletin
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:19:11PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:49:39PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> >> I am about to develop a package which delivers email bulletins to Maildir
> >> mail users. This needs to be SUID root to deliver mail inside their home
> >> directories.
> >
> >Technically, it doesn't need to be suid root -- it could also be run by root.
>
> The idea of having lots of Postfix configurations running external programs
> as root doesn't appeal to me at all. Postfix doesn't seem to allow different
> users for different programs, it's just one UID per external program.
Are you sure about this? ie are you sure you can't have a different
UID for each program. I don't understand why this should be the
case.
For instance, in my Fidonet configuration, all mail for any subdomain
inside *.fidonet.org is redirected to ifmail running as user=ftn.
(see /etc/postfix/master.cf - The only files I had to change related to
/etc/postfix/transport).
However, perhaps I have made some incorrect assumptions along
the way...
Which brings me to the next point: how do you activate it? How
would somebody use it to send a bulletin via postfix??
--
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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