On 19/06/17 23:24, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> This was posted to oss-security a few days ago:
>
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/10/1
>
> Exim can use gdbm, cdb etc for most purposes, but the retry hints files
> seem to be always Berkeley DB.
Applies, but limited by Exim not dealing with the hints DB while
privileged.
> Maybe that should change?
Exim can be compiled to use gdbm (and some others) rather than
Berkeley DB; it's a packager's choice. "exim -bV" output will
say what you have (just before the "support for" line).
Bug 268 is relevant (requesting non-dbm DB types for hints).
For BDB, better would be to set a specific "db environment" up and run
with it, so that it doesn't look for that file. Bug 2141 openeed.
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Cheers,
Jeremy
