MS, etrust, Exim, and run as root

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 05 September 2003 9:24 pm, Hancock, Scott wrote:

> Is anyone running Exim, MS, and eTrust?
>
> Exim wants to run as mail and etrust inocmd32 must run as root.
>
> Any ideas?

sudo in the eTrust wrapper script?

> Part two.
>
> What is a simple MTA that runs as root.

I would suspect none these days.   Dropping privilege is such a standard
security measure that I'd be surprised if anything up to date didn't do it.

Antony.

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