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Re: chroot question

From: /dev/rob0 (rob0gmx.co.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 11:30:31 CDT


On Monday 07 August 2006 06:18, Wietse Venema wrote:
> krystian:
> > I'd like to install postfix in my apache chroot.
snip

> Don't INSTALL Postfix in a chroot tree.
>
> Instead, CONFIGURE Postfix daemons for chroot operation.

I am guessing that the point is to provide an already-chrooted Apache
exclusive access to a Postfix MTA. But that would only matter for
sendmail(1), as the jailed httpd can surely connect to localhost:25.

postconf.5.html#sendmail_path
postconf.5.html#authorized_submit_users
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