Re: MTAs

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:02:30PM +1000, Paul Haesler wrote:
> > it is a Good Thing to have an MTA which does not run as
> > root.  I found the argument persuasive, and happily installed postifx.
> >   I do miss one thing from exim, however. 
> 
> Default debian installation of exim runs as mail:
> 
> [paul@marge procmail]> grep exim /etc/inetd.conf
> smtp            stream  tcp     nowait  mail    /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs

I don't know much about exim's guts, but is there a point in starting it
as "mail" if it's SUID root?

-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       466308 sie 15 01:13 /usr/sbin/exim

Marcin
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