On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:37:53AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a > > > location to do this. > > > > The UID is set by the install script when it makes the exim4 username. > > > > Before you start chaning the UID (which would mean that you'd have to > > search the entire Filesystem for files with the old UID and chown to the > > new UID (since the filesystem is set up by numeric UID and not > > username): > > > > Why are you trying to change the UID? > for some reason when i do a ps -ef | grep exim I always get back that > exim is running as uid = 102, not a name but a numerical. Whilst trying > to investigate this I noticed there was no location to set the uid. I > just thought that this was rather strange. > > most of the googleing I did implied that the daemon started as root and > changed uid
Look in /etc/passwd. That maps user names and UIDs. See if exim4 is uid 102. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
