On 15/05/2023 06:52, Ian Z via Exim-users wrote:
exim.conf should be world readable for the sake of users reading it with cat, less or emacs, to figure out what the configuration is. Anything else amounts to security by obscurity.
There are often secrets in the config (eg. database-access credentials). Having it world-readable in uncommon. There are defined command-line methods for extracting cleaned info. -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## exim-users-unsubscr...@lists.exim.org ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
