Re: [exim] Exim overparanoid about non-root users.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Woodhouse
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim overparanoid about non-root users.
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Exim is a little overzealous about preventing you from doing stuff when
> you're not root. It won't let me run that simple test in debugging mode


You need to be an Exim admin user (not necessarily root) in order to run
Exim in debugging mode. That's because it may show secrets such as
passwords for databases etc.

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