On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:00:33 -0600, Tommy Butler <tommy@???>
wrote:
>What's wrong with:
>
>usermod -G shadow Debian-exim
> -or if exim runs under user "exim"-
>usermod -G shadow exim
>
>Just add exim user to the shadow group.
/etc/shadow contains one of the most valuable databases in today's
UNIX systems: The database of User Passwords, including root's.
Is it really a good idea to allow read access to that database to an
exposed daemon? Nosireebob, that one won't happen in Debian's exim4
packages.
Greetings
Marc
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