On Sat, 13 May 2023 at 00:10, Ian Z via Exim-users <
exim-users@lists.exim.org> wrote:

> If exim.conf is not readable by normal users, I'd consider it a
> serious misconfiguration. Talk to the admin about that.
>

The exim binary is usually setuid root, so there's no need for the config
file to be readable by regular users. e.g.

$ ls -al /usr/sbin/exim4
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1512616 Jul 13  2021 /usr/sbin/exim4

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