Re[3]: [exim] Debugging 'Invalid base64 data"

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Autor: Philip Hazel
Datum:  
To: Felix Brack
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re[3]: [exim] Debugging 'Invalid base64 data"
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Felix Brack wrote:

> Perhaps the answer to my question is: "There is no option that makes exim
> log usernames or passwords due to security reasons"?


It's the start of the day, and I am now awake. :-) When I wrote

> PH> That debug looks odd. It should show the entire SMTP dialogue,


I wasn't really thinking it through. What I should have said was that
the debug should show the entire SMTP dialogue *at the top level*. It
doesn't show exchanges that happen inside the authenticator code. I
think that is probably a mistake, the result of an oversight when the
authenticators were first implemented. That's quite a long time ago now,
and I'm surprised nobody noticed it before. I will treat it as a bug,
and fix it.

I don't think there is a security issue, because only an Exim admin user
can start an Exim daemon, and in any case, only an Exim admin user can
set a sufficiently high debug level.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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