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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:09:37 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: exim and ntsec
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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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