Re: Run as NON-ROOT

[Don Armstrong]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Steve wrote:
> Is it possible to get the milter to start as a non-root user or drop
> to a non root user? Does it provide for this?

Yes, and the Debian and Ubuntu packages do this by default if you have
a version later than 0.3.1-3.

See the RUNAS option in the init script.
 

Don Armstrong

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