hi there,

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ondřej Surý) writes:
>
>Jonas Pasche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > as chris bolt correctly stated, vchkpw has to be suid, but suid vpopmail
> > unfortunately is not enough; it has to be suid root (ken jones told me that
> > long time ago),
>
>This is *not* true!  I have vchkpw running suid vpopmail.vchkpw just fine.

ok, with my old vpopmail version that didn't work; it worked just with suid 
root. obviously this isn't a problem with newer versions. thanks for that 
correction.

but take care, if you create domains under different user id's (vadddomain 
-u/-i/-g) vchkpw _really_ has to be suid root.

bye, jon.
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