On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Greetings. > > mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a > queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, > because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "permission denied". > > Thanks, > > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <michael.soulier@home.com>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 > "Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyone is using > huge, buggy programs not even their developers can love." > -Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming No, it's not a security risk... for the reasons you mentioned... just edit permissions in usual manner... Take care, Davor
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