Re: Policy question
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 06:21:14PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> In fact, you don't mean that it needs to run setuid. It merely needs
> to be run _as_ a particular uid. There are several ways of achieving
> this other than setuid. Two that I can think of that I'd recommend to
> you are:
>
> * userv, which Wichert has already mentioned.
I must have missed that; do you have a URL?
> * Most MTA's can be configured to run particular sets of aliases
> etc. as particular uses and/or groups.
"most" isn't good enough here. I know from past experience :-)
In Elm (which I maintain), I set the configuration to use the 8BITMIME
option of MTAs (all of them have this, of course.) Well, I was wrong; they
do not all have that, and so bugs reports started coming in and I had to
change it. When dealing with stuff that talks to the mail server, the
unfortunate reality is that the lowest common set of features is what must be
used.
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