Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?
* Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>, 20010326 18:44 +0200:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andre Berger wrote:
> > Though running as user mail, as Henrique suggested, is way more elegant.
> > It would be a great idea to have a solution for ppp users "out of the
> > box"...
>
> There is one: /etc/fetchmailrc, and let it run as root. It is described in
> the README.Debian, and a default ip-up script that will work even if you
> have a ppp link and a local LAN is there as well.
>
> It is NOT the optimal setup, though. It is a setup that won't fail in
> misterious ways (it does produce cosmetic problems, such as a failure to
> start fetchmail during bootup if you don't have a DNS resolver at that
> time).
root would have to update this file whenever needed. Users can change
their ~/.fetchmailrc on their own.
Andre Berger [andre.berger@topmail.de]
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