On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Dan Egli wrote:
> Ok. Now that I feel totally stupid (Thanks Philip for pointing out the
> obvious missing element in my config files!), can anyone help me with this
> little issue?
>
> I have a server with shadowed passwords. I want to maintain the password
> security, but I also need exim to be able to read the passwords for
> authentication purposes. I don't want to do the obvious (chmod o+r
> /etc/shadow), but without doing that I cannot see hwo to SECURELY have exim
> read the password database (unless it runs as suid root, which again, is not
> safe).
>
> Any help here is appreciated.
I've answered this on the list once this week.
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