[ITA] Procmail 3.22

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Aug 16 08:49:00 GMT 2014


On Aug 16 10:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 16 10:07, D. Boland wrote:
> > Hi Corinna,
> > 
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > 
> > [...]
> > > > I forgot the prep stage.
> > > >
> > > > I re-made the binary package and its source package with cygport (nice
> > > > program btw):
> > > >
> > > > http://cygwin.boland.nl/x86/release/procmail/
> > > >
> > > > I had to cheat a little (see 'src_compile' in .cygport file) because
> > > > the source has to be compiled with a library, called 'suexec'. In
> > > > there are the function overrides to make 'multi-root' and suid/guid
> > > > possible.
> > > >
> > > > To make the Procmail and Sendmail packages completely 'clean' I would
> > > > like to ITP this library as a new package.
> > > 
> > > Definitely.  If a library is a prerequisite for the package, you should
> > > ITP it before we upload any dependent package.  If the build is ok, it's
> > > more or less preapproved if it's GTG.
> > > 
> > > I'm just a bit puzzled.  Isn't suexec an application, and isn't it part
> > > of apache, usually?  Also, since when is procmail dependent on suexec?
> > > It isn't on Fedora and they certainly use almost all of procmail's
> > > features...
> > 
> > You are right, suexec is an Apache program. I created this library myself and
> > borrowed the name from Apache. It solves the impersonation problem by making
> > procmail 'multi-root' aware. I wrote a small article on it in my ITP of libsuexec.
> 
> procmail works from sendmail in a multi-user scenario on Fedora without
> this tool.  Why does this solution not work for Cygwin?

Disregard this question.  The expression "multi-root" totally puzzeled
me.  Let's follow up with the libsuexec ITP.


Corinna

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