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Re: exim and ntsec
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:09:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: exim and ntsec
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.44.0207032126470.844-100000@toos> <055201c223fb$85340ea0$eb6610ac@lefeuvrewk2>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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