Mikhail Zabaluev <mhz(_at_)altlinux(_dot_)org>:
I have stepped up as a maintainer of the fetchmail package for
the ALT Linux distribution. Among my first accomplishments on this
duty is a patch that allows skipping permission checks on
configuration files, by means of the "nopermcheck" option.
It's useful when one has a system-wide config file owned by
root, yet prefers to run fetchmail under a distinct user ID.
Another reason is that using 'versioninfo' flag
as a guide to skip checks doesn't seem very logical.
An exception is made for the UID file -- it's always checked
unless the version info mode is in effect. The patch is attached
below.
This looks OK, but I'm not taking new features until after 6.0.0.
You'll be welcome to re-submit it at that time.
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<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>