Re: Exim permissions

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Pigeon writes:
> To force delivery of email to remote addresses, it seems that I have to
> pon and then exim -qf. For exim -qf, I have to be root. I'd rather not
> have to.

You shouldn't have to.  Exim should have installed /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim,
containing:

#!/bin/sh

# Flush exim queue
if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then
        /usr/sbin/exim -qf
fi

> BUT... /usr/sbin/exim is setuid root. Huh?

I expect that for security reasons exim gives up its root privileges
whenever it thinks it doesn't need them.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin