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Re: Multiple users in fetchmail


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:28:48AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:31:13AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:02:04PM +0100, Jim George wrote:
> > > in the Linux version of fetchmail I was able to run the daemon as
> > > root and fetch/deliver mail (through procmail) for multipl users.
> > > Reading the man/README/archives of this list, I don't appear to have
> > > that option anymore.  I also don't appear to be able to install/run
> > > to instances of the same service under different user IDs.
> > 
> > Try running fetchmail in daemon mode as service under SYSTEM account.
> 
> Grep-ing the fetchmail code, I get the following:
> 
>     $ grep 'set.*uid' *.c
>     sink.c:    seteuid(ctl->uid);
>     sink.c:    seteuid(0);
> 
> So, I presume that I will have to change the second hit above to:
> 
>     seteuid(18);

Better:

      uid_t orig_uid = getuid ();
      setuid (ctl->uid);

      [...]

      seteuid (orig_uid);

Corinna

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