Re: [exim] Local user enumeration through RCPT

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Author: John Burnham
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Local user enumeration through RCPT
> One of the servers we look after was recently "penetration
> tested" and they
> could find very little wrong so they complained about silly
> things like it's
> possible to see which users locally exist on the server
> through the answer
> Exim provides to the RCPT command.
>

Actually, surely all it's doing is enumerating the email addresses that that server
accepts mail for.... This may have little or no connection to the OS user accounts.
J