On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ohad M. Somjen wrote:
> [snip]
> T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: failed to chdir to /root
> [snip]
>
> exim runs as mail:mail
like any sane MTA should (read: sendmail not included)
> i guess this should not be the normal situation.
guess again. I never read much into Exim, but root delivery is the
source of many possible problems and securityies, that's why Qmail
blocks it too. in general it's a bad idea to read mail, telnet, do FTP
or anything in the root account. redirect the mail to your user (exim
supports dash extensions, so forward it to ohad-root for easier
sorting) and never do anything as root. I pitty all the kiddies out
there installing Linux, logging in to X as root and go online. it's a
break-in waiting to happen.
>
> should i add mail to root group ????
nope. too many rights are always security risks... even if the machine
is behind a firewall it's a risk.
--
Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast
As usual, this being a 1.3.x release, I haven't even compiled this
kernel yet. So if it works, you should be doubly impressed.
(Linus Torvalds, announcing kernel 1.3.3 on the linux-kernel mailing list.)
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