Re: [fetchmail-users] Running fetchmail as root for all users

[Stephen A. <fet...@ro...>]

Rob MacGregor wrote:
> There is no need, unless you're passing email directly to a non-SUID
> MDA, to run fetchmail as root.  Indeed, future versions of fetchmail
> will refuse to run as root.  I haven't run fetchmail as root since
> before 6.0 was released and have not had any problems.
> 
> Simply run it as a standard user (say "fetchmail") and have it pass
> email to your MTA.
> 
> In general, running any program with higher privileges than it
> requires is a security risk.

Thanks Rob, I take note about not running it as root and will fix that 
ASAP.  My questions was mainly aimed at, should I run one instance of 
fetchmail to poll all POP3 accounts for all 8 users, or should I set up 
a seperate instance per-user?  And I thought it might be significant to 
say that the users cannot log in via a shell.

Thanks,
Steve :)