Re: [exim] 4.74 exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mod…

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] 4.74 exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mode


--On 1 February 2011 15:55:05 +0530 S Pratap Singh <kdarious@???>
wrote:

>
> I have as below
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 36961 Feb 1 02:46 /etc/exim/exim.conf


The exim config file should not be world readable. If it doesn't contain,
say, passwords for SQL servers, then it may do one day.

It clearly needs to be readable by the exim user. And, perhaps, by a group.
It should not need to be writable, except at moments that you're updating
it.

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Ian Eiloart
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