Re: [Exim] -d9 reveals postgres password

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Joachim Wieland
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] -d9 reveals postgres password
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Joachim Wieland wrote:

> I stumbled about this with exim 3.33:
>
> joe@mcrock:~$ /usr/sbin/exim -d9 -bt adfadf 2>&1| grep password
> PGSQL new connection: host=localhost port=0 database=maildb user=exim
> password=exim
>
>
> So, I am a normal user and I am able to see the password?



Are you really a normal user? Only admin users are able to run with
debug levels greater than one. Look at the start of the debug output.
It should say

Caller is an admin user

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