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[fetchmail-users] Re: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
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From: Michelle K. <lin...@fr...> - 2005-11-18 18:58:00
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Am 2005-11-17 11:02:01, schrieb Matthias Andree: > Thomas Wolff schrieb am 2005-11-11: > > > There is this new warning "WARNING: Running as root is discouraged." > > which is somehow disturbing. > > Yes, and that is deliberate. > > Networking clients should never run with root privileges, and fetchmail > is no exception. Fetchmail does not need root privileges to forward > mail, the only conceivable scenario where it needs root privileges is > one where it calls an MDA for a different user. If fetchmail can not started by the $USER and it run global from a script for all $USERS with "mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T" what must I change that it continue to work To get a clue: My fetchmail wraper generates logs like 2005-09-12 12:45:01 : Processing started... 2005-09-12 12:45:02 : amina.herdam default (2: Socket) 2005-09-12 12:45:13 : athina.russel default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:14 : ccenter default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:18 : dgse default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:20 : diana.seitz default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:21 : dst default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:23 : farahnaz.pahlavi default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:24 : fayah.dogan default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:28 : karima.kalaaji default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:30 : lydia.ackermann default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:31 : mehdi.serhane default (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:32 : michelle.konzack 0_private (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:45:46 : michelle.konzack 1_tdnet (0: Success) 2005-09-12 12:46:11 : michelle.konzack 3_arabeyes (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:46:12 : michelle.konzack 4_bts (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:46:15 : michelle.konzack 5_postgresql (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:46:16 : michelle.konzack 6_php (0: Success) 2005-09-12 12:46:24 : michelle.konzack 7_linux (0: Success) 2005-09-12 12:46:50 : michelle.konzack 8_mail (1: No mail) 2005-09-12 12:46:50 : michelle.konzack 9_debian (0: Success) 2005-09-12 12:54:34 : michelle.konzack A_misc (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 12:55:30 : michelle.konzack B_wanadoo (2: Socket) 2005-09-12 12:59:15 : michelle.konzack C_lugs (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 13:00:11 : michelle.konzack D_sun (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 13:01:07 : michelle.konzack F_tdautobuilder (2: Socket) 2005-09-12 13:02:59 : mis default (2: Socket) 2005-09-12 13:04:52 : mos default (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 13:05:48 : noor.nurani default (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 13:06:45 : omegasector default (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 13:07:43 : pmc default (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 13:08:39 : sandrine.dario default (11: DNS) 2005-09-12 13:09:35 : tamay.dogan default (2: Socket) 2005-09-12 13:13:20 : zelie.domeracki default (11: DNS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Availlable diskspace: Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdj1 72287 45802 25751 65% /home-mail ======================================================================== Each $USER can have one or more fetchmailconfigs and now ? There is only ssmtp on the system availlable which does not support local delivery. > > I thought fetchmail is also intended as a system installation > > for multi-user mail retrieval so it's actually a designed mode to > > run fetchmail as root (and the message seems to be unconditional, Right > Refused. Please fix the way you work. This is not Windows, and sudo(1) > works well for the few moments when you need more power than the regular > user. <http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/> It can not fixed, if you need to fetch messages from cron for all the $USER of a system. > fetchmail is a tool for the end user who is usually untrained about > systems administrations, putting up obstacles and annoyances while he > works as root is the right thing to do. But if the $ENDUSER can not run fetchmail because she/he has no access and it is the system which get the messages ? My system has only courier-imap-ssl, procmail and fetchmail installed. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) |
