Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:07:18 EST


On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Tomas Telensky wrote:

> Thanks for the comment. And why not just let it listen to 25 and then
> being run as uid=nobody, gid=mail?

Handling of .forward, for one thing. Or pipe aliases, or...

None of this stuff is unsolvable (e.g. handling of .forward belongs to
MDA, not MTA), but changing that will break existing setups.

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