[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.12 Beta 1

Justin King justin at othius.com
Wed May 15 13:18:52 EDT 2002


FYI, mimedefang can be run as a non-root user. I've been doing it since I
started using mimedefang. Is this flag just to make things quicker to set
up?

-Justin

----- Original Message -----
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:29 AM
Subject: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.12 Beta 1


[snip]
> Major change:  Added "-U" options to mimedefang and mimedefang-multiplexor
> to let them run as non-root.  They start as root to create their
> sockets and pid-files in /var/run, but then drop privileges before
> doing anything else.  Please read the man pages and test carefully;
> I think this is a major security improvement.
[snip]




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