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Re: The eternal uid issue

From: Linda Walsh <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:19:30 -0700
Subject: Re: The eternal uid issue
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References: <53CF6CEC dot 6D68E485 at boland dot nl>

D. Boland wrote:

But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid issue.

* sendmail, procmail, mail.local assume that the id of the privileged user is '0'.

Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also?

I thought sendmail used capabilities?

Isn't it about time none of them used a fixed 'uid', but used capabilities?

I thought hard coding a Uid was going out with the dodo bird?




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