This one time, at band camp, Ian Jackson said:
> Andreas Metzler writes ("exim-using packages - are you relying on -C or -D options?"):
> > Do you know packages that rely on the -D or -C options? For -C
> > option, in which directory is the alternate configuration file searched
> > for?
>
> sauce uses the -C option. And chiark's mail system relies on -C very
> heavily in other ways. Please don't break it.
Can it limit itsef to a choice of two non world-writable directories?
That is the only current way to keep a successful break-in to the exim
account from escalating to root. There is a patch on exim-dev to allow
this to work without escalated privileges, but it's not in the lenny
exim.
Cheers,
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