Milter-greylist

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:18:40AM -0500, Arjun Datta wrote:
> How do I rebuild with user smmsp ?

I know that RTFM is not a friendly answer, but you should consider re-reading
section 1 of the README file...

> Also, just curious, but why should the milter run as smmsp - wouldn't it 
> have more permissions if it ran as root ?

If there is a security hole in milter-greylist and you run it as root, then
an attacker could take over your machine by sending a specially crafted
e-mail. If you run as smmsp, the attacker will only gain smmsp privileges.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@...