X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/445c8a471eefdfc7341a7b53d692650582ade484..107077d7fd6736711bf5cd980221723401d37c51:/src/src/exim.c

diff --git a/src/src/exim.c b/src/src/exim.c
index 8a78689ff..118fe5c7c 100644
--- a/src/src/exim.c
+++ b/src/src/exim.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 *     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
 *************************************************/
 
-/* Copyright (c) The Exim Maintainers 2020 - 2022 */
+/* Copyright (c) The Exim Maintainers 2020 - 2023 */
 /* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2018 */
 /* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
@@ -4478,7 +4478,8 @@ if (!f.admin_user)
      || queue_name_dest && prod_requires_admin
      || debugset && !f.running_in_test_harness
      )
-    exim_fail("exim:%s permission denied\n", debugset ? " debugging" : "");
+    exim_fail("exim:%s permission denied; not admin\n",
+	      debugset ? " debugging" : "");
   }
 
 /* If the real user is not root or the exim uid, the argument for passing
@@ -4494,7 +4495,7 @@ if (  real_uid != root_uid && real_uid != exim_uid
       )  )
    && !f.running_in_test_harness
    )
-  exim_fail("exim: Permission denied\n");
+  exim_fail("exim: Permission denied; not exim user or root\n");
 
 /* If the caller is not trusted, certain arguments are ignored when running for
 real, but are permitted when checking things (-be, -bv, -bt, -bh, -bf, -bF).