Re: mail group/exim starting difficulties

[Bruce Sass <bsass@edmc.net>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Jeff Maxson wrote:
<...>
> Interesting.  If I comment out the line 216 as below, everything is
> hunkydory.  Do I need to leave that "group = mail" line in there?
> Mostlikely, but what negative things come of it?
>
> local_delivery:
>   driver = appendfile
> # Jeff tries to remove this
> # group = mail
>   mode = 0660
>   mode_fail_narrower = false
>   envelope_to_add = true
>   return_path_add = true
>   file = /var/mail/${local_part}

"need", doesn't appear to be the case (because it works without it),
perhaps `should' though

I would expect[1] that exim would run as whoever started it (root?),
which would greatly enlarge any security holes opened up if exim was
compromised.


- Bruce

[1] just guessing, my use of exim is simple enough that
I've never needed to touch the config after installation