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Subject:	Re: The eternal uid issue
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D. Boland wrote:
> But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid issue.
>
> * sendmail, procmail, mail.local assume that the id of the privileged user is '0'.
>
> Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also?
>
>   
I thought sendmail used capabilities?

Isn't it about time none of them used a fixed 'uid', but used capabilities?

I thought hard coding a Uid was going out with the dodo bird?




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