Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:09:37 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: exim and ntsec Message-ID: <20020705120937.L21857@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <055201c223fb$85340ea0$eb6610ac@lefeuvrewk2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <055201c223fb$85340ea0$eb6610ac@lefeuvrewk2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:11:09AM +0200, Corwin wrote: > Still no luck .... > I tried several permission settings and owner but no way ... > With configure owned by SYSTEM with full rights exim -d gives me the > following: > > $exim -d > Exim version 4.04 uid=11467 gid=10513 pid=1668 L=834cd8 D=fff7577f > probably GDBM (native mode) > Exim has no root privilege: uid=11467 gid=10513 euid=11467 egid=10513 > changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective > uid=11467 gid=10513 > auxiliary group list: 0 11363 11428 10513 544 545 It's easy to see from the above that exim has no root privileges (it tells you!). Change the code in exim which checks for uid 0 and let it check for uid 18. Then start exim from cygrunsrv as described for sshd/cron/etc. See /usr/doc/Cygwin. Lots of docs. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/