Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:17:01 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: philip@state51.co.uk (Philip Crewdson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: local delivery problems with exim Message-ID: <199611271517.QAA02479@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <l03010600aec1193203f5@[194.159.145.12]> from Philip Crewdson at "Nov 26, 96 10:04:43 pm"
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Philip Crewdson writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run exim 1.58, which I got from the Cambridge source. It's > working fine, except it won't deliver locally - it doesn't seem to be able > to adopt the uid of local users. Anyone had/solved this problem? I don't know exim, but the problem looks familiar: you need to set your program setuid root: # chown root exim # chown 4755 exim The '4' is the suid bit. If this doesn't work, let me know. setuid(2) and setgid(2) have some surprises in store. Greg
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