Re: [exim] SMTP AUTH with system users

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Auteur: Marc Haber
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Onderwerp: Re: [exim] SMTP AUTH with system users
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:10:08 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina
<mihamina.rakotomandimby@???> wrote:
>I would like system users to AUTH SMTP with their login/passwords.
>For the moment they use one login/password, system wide.


Which is usually a bad idea since SMTP passwords are usually stored in
the client software, a lot of which is notoriously bad in encrypting
the password storage.

If you absolutely must do this, please at least force encryption of
the SMTP session by not advertising AUTH over non-encrypted
connections.

Greetings
Marc

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