Alternative: use unveil rather than chroot+setuid #6
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The code you have already is more portable than what's in this pull request, but I wanted to share this for anyone looking for an alternative to running the program as root. On OpenBSD I let OpenSMTPD spawn minimalist as the
_smtpd
user. Then I useunveil
rather thanchroot
.