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From: "D. Boland" <daniel AT boland DOT nl>
Subject: Re: The eternal uid issue
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:38:50 +0200
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Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> 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?

You didn't get the point. We create a kernel on which Linux software runs. We don't
dictate how software should be written.

Regards,
Daniel


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