This is the mail archive of the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: exim and ntsec


On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:11:09AM +0200, Corwin wrote:
> Still no luck ....
> I tried several permission settings and owner but no way ...
> With configure owned by SYSTEM with full rights exim -d gives me the
> following:
> 
> $exim -d
> Exim version 4.04 uid=11467 gid=10513 pid=1668 L=834cd8 D=fff7577f
> probably GDBM (native mode)
> Exim has no root privilege: uid=11467 gid=10513 euid=11467 egid=10513
> changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective
>   uid=11467 gid=10513
>   auxiliary group list: 0 11363 11428 10513 544 545

It's easy to see from the above that exim has no root privileges
(it tells you!).  Change the code in exim which checks for uid 0
and let it check for uid 18.  Then start exim from cygrunsrv as
described for sshd/cron/etc.  See /usr/doc/Cygwin.  Lots of docs.

Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Developer                                mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com
Red Hat, Inc.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]