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Re: exim and ntsec -- general unix style root access
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:09:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> 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.
Is this a general change to be made in unix code ported to run under cygwin?
I.e. if code was to run as suid root on unix,
have it run as SYSTEM and check for uid 18?
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