postfix-nochroot(8)

postfix-nochroot8

Change /etc/postfix/master.cf to not use chroot

Usage

postfix-nochroot

Overview

Renames /etc/postfix/master.cf to /etc/postfix/master.cf.bak and creates a new /etc/postfix/master.cf file with every service configured to not use chroot. Every modified line is commented. It also restarts Postfix (to apply the change) and rmoves the unused chroot directories /var/spool/postfix/{etc,lib,usr} .

Using a chroot environment makes upgrades more difficult and gets in the way when running SE Linux (without actually providing any security benefit in a SE Linux system).

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–13

Author

This program and it's man page was written by Russell Coker <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

From selinux-basics 0.6.0 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.