Linda Walsh wrote: > > 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?
You didn't get the point. We create a kernel on which Linux software runs. We don't dictate how software should be written. Regards, Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
