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On Wednesday 20 July 2005 03:04 am, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 05:37:19AM +0000, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: |
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> > I can confirm that - bincimap and qmail-pop3d run as root, so the |
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> > setuid bit is not necessary. I believe this is also the case for |
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> > dovecot 1.0 beta releases, though there are no ebuilds for them so |
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> > I haven't yet tested (<1.0 releases use libvpopmail directly |
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> > instead of the checkpassword interface). However it is necessary |
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> > for any server running as a non-root user, i.e. qmail-smtpd. |
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> For common operation of qmail-smtpd, vchkpw is NOT required. SMTP AUTH |
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> is the only reason qmail-smtpd would call vchkpw. |
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how is that not common operation ? SMTP AUTH is a pretty critical feature |
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imho |
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-mike |
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