Re: permissions on config files

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Author: Jon Morby
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To: Chris Thompson
CC: ph10, exim-users
Subject: Re: permissions on config files

Arse, you mean modemask .....

/me bangs head in an RTFM fashion.

Thanks folks, modemask=002 was the option :)


> Jon Morby writes:
> >
> > Global configurations mainly ... Things like the system_alias director.
> >
> > The only reference in spec.txt I can see which relates to modes talks in th

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> > context of mailbox's not configuration files.
>
> Have you read section 21.5? on the owners, owngroups and modemask private
> options for an aliasfile director?
>
> If you mean that you want to delegate modification of the *definition* of
> an aliasfile director, that would be difficult. The one thing that can't
> be modified in Exim, except by recompilation, is the owner/group/mode
> checks made on the main configuration file itself (described at the start
> of section 7).
>
> Chris Thompson               Cambridge University Computing Service,
> Email: cet1@???    New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
> Phone: +44 1223 334715       United Kingdom.

>

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