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