Re: Security of Cyrus IMAPd vs UofW IMAPd ...

[Ian G Batten]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Rob Tanner wrote:
> privileges.  Since all the mailboxes are owned by the Cyrus user, what 
> would be more secure  of a system that just does mail delivery woulkd 
> be a hack to sendmail so that once it attaches to port 25 it drops root 
> and runs as the Cyrus user.  Show me a hack like that, and Cyrus wins 
> hands down (or two thumbs up) because you can't do that with UofW. 

Is there any reason you can't just use ``RunAsUser'' and run as cyrus?
I run machine that do no local delivery as arbitrary users, and that
works just fine.

ian