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Re: SOLVED: Exim and ASMTP



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On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:22:38AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Email handling is notorious feable and any shortcomming in it is
> likely to be used to corrupt your system.  That's why it's run by a
> non priveliged user.  Don't spoil that setup, but keep looking for
> other ways to pass the info (not the encrypted passwd, but the result
> of a password validation) to exim.
> 
> Exim being near perfect, there must be a better way to achieve what you need:)

This is the best way I've found so far.  I'm not ruling out the
possiblity, but I haven't seen anything where an intruder can get the
passwords from exim...it's pretty robust and overflow-resistant.

- -- 
Baloo


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