[Pkg-exim4-users] ACL runs twice

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:25:40PM +0100, Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> It works but as I said it appears to run twice.

It runs once for each ACL stanza that invokes it as a sub-ACL.
Currently, it is used seven times, so I think that twice is rather few.

> So i wasn't sure why the rule was being called twice. I was thinking 
> that this was because the macro WHITELIST_LOCAL_DENY_LOCAL_ACL_FILE 
> was used by several other acls.

No, the acl_whitelist_local_deny ACL is called as a sub-ACL multiple
times.

> Should I just leave WHITELIST_LOCAL_DENY_LOCAL_ACL_FILE alone and 
> make local_host_whitelist writeable by the apache-userid or use 
> suEXEC to setuid before writing to the list?

No.

What you're doing seems like the right thing to me, but you're doing
it without understanding the mechanism.

Greetings
Marc

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