[Dovecot] Postfix & Dovecot LDA

'Jochen Schulz' ml at well-adjusted.de
Mon Jan 22 18:40:27 UTC 2007


Láďa:
>
> I have a setup, which is the same (currently in testing).

Great!

> Main problem is that LDA has to switch its privileges to the owner of mail
> so it has to be run as root. Marking it suid solves the problem, than you
> can change it to be executable only by Postfix.

I don't quite understand what you mean. Something like this?

-rwsr-x--- 1 root postfix 501K 2006-12-18 19:10 /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver

> Timo says that this is the safe way and I personally believe him :-)

If it's not, we'll sue him. :)

BTW, if anybody questions the benefits of different UIDs per domain, I'd
be interested to hear it, too.

J.
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