Re: why qmail is more secure, was: Mailing list performance

[Michael T. Babcock]

The multiple UIDs provide a few failsafes, if nothing else, whereby one
broken / buggy / replaced binary can't do damage to files it doesn't own.
DJB has comments about this in the readmes, if I'm not mistaken.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronny Haryanto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> On 02-Aug-2000, Dave Sill wrote:
> > 1) Postfix only uses a single uid. qmail uses six.
>
> Why is using more than one uid better? What sort of security problem
> would using one uid potentially pose?