>>>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:43:44 -0800,
>>>>> Rob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (rt) writes:
rt> (I know a lot of people swear by postfix, but I stick with sendmail
rt> because I know the product and in this world of nasty hackers, using
rt> an unfamiliar MTA is a very scarry thought. But does anyone know,
rt> can postfix be configured to drop root to some other specified user
rt> after it initializes?)
Part of the reason why I dropped sendmail is because our mta router
was running out of memory and swap, and I barely had enough space to
even create more swap files. YEEK! I cranked up postfix (which I
had been testing), and I was able to delete a bunch of swap files. :-)
Anyway, with postfix only the master process runs as root, and all
master does, like with cyrus, is make sure all the various services
are running, and these all run as user "postfix". Though, if you
wish, you can take this a step further and chroot it as well.
--
Amos
