Re: [fetchmail-users] duplicating single remote account into multiple local account

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Filippo Santovito wrote:

> Alle 12:56, mercoledì 31 maggio 2006, Matthias Andree ha scritto:
> > Apparently yes. Note that procmail needs to be setuid-root for this to
> > work (do not run fetchmail as root).
> I'm running fecthmail/procmail with suse 10 standard config:
> 
> $ ls -l $(which procmail)
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 77793 Jan 21 13:45 /usr/bin/procmail
> $ ls -l $(which fetchmail)
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 225988 Sep  9  2005 /usr/bin/fetchmail
> 
> fetchmail is started in deamon mode by init.d script.

SUSE start fetchmail as root, against my advise :-(

So, it works ok, but isn't a recommended configuration security-wise.

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Matthias Andree