On 14 Apr 2001 01:58:10 +0200, Michael Hall <adminmulga.com.au> wrote:

> 1. I have postfix running as a sendmail replacement on RH 6.1. It dropped
> in effortlessly and runs without a hitch. It is not, however, chrooted as
> I could not find enough detail about how to actually do this. How
> vulnerable is postfix without chrooting? The man page for chroot had
> little info I could use, same with the postfix docs. They seem to assume
> that one is already familiar with the process.

You need to setup the chroot jail using examples/chroot-setup/<Your OS> from
the source distribution.
Then you edit /etc/postfix/master.cf; there's a column "chroot" for every
daemon. All daemons except "local" can run chrooted. So put a "y" into that
column.

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