On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a > > location to do this. > > The UID is set by the install script when it makes the exim4 username. > > Before you start chaning the UID (which would mean that you'd have to > search the entire Filesystem for files with the old UID and chown to the > new UID (since the filesystem is set up by numeric UID and not > username): > > Why are you trying to change the UID? for some reason when i do a ps -ef | grep exim I always get back that exim is running as uid = 102, not a name but a numerical. Whilst trying to investigate this I noticed there was no location to set the uid. I just thought that this was rather strange. most of the googleing I did implied that the daemon started as root and changed uid Thanks > > Doug. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "My mom often used to say, The trouble with W -- although she didn't put that to words." - George W. Bush 04/03/2002 Washington, DC
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