On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:50:36PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:53:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Anyone care to comment on the security issues of running fetchmail as > > root? > > > > I've never needed to. I run fetchmail out-of-the-box as a daemon with > the fechmailrc in /etc (no-per-user fetchmail). It just works. well, looky there... > > What errors do you get? Send us your fetchmailrc (with the password and > other sensitive things XXX'd out. Also, ensure that > /etc/default/fetchmail has START_DAEMON=yes. ooh. and there too. learn something everyday. I had been running it on a per user basis and decided that was a pain because 1) my users were never going to mess with their fetchmailrc's and 2) then I would have multiple fetchmail's running. Neither of these were desirable, so I stuck them all in root and ran it like that. Thanks for the pointer. A
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