Anyone use exim?

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
03 Nov 2000 14:11:41 -0500


Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> >Is exim install suid root?
> 
> Yup...any ideas on how to change that? When I run top, it tells me that 
> the owner is root, which I assume means root is the owner of the process. 

That's not the way to tell whether a program is suid root.  Use
"ls -l", for instance:

blp:~(0)$ ls -l /usr/sbin/exim
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       447000 Oct 21 20:16 /usr/sbin/exim
   ^ this `s' indicates suid.

You *want* exim to be suid, by the way.