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Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi



On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:37:53AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> 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

Look in /etc/passwd.  That maps user names and UIDs.  See if exim4 is
uid 102.  

Doug.


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