On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:23:59AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > ??? > /etc/fetchmailrc is owned by fetchmail:root, 0600. Anyone who can read > that file has root permissions and can just as easily read any > .fetchmailrc that they want to.
Yes, they can. But that still doesn't mean that I want to have to share *my* mail passwords with someone else, or want to have to keep someone ELSE in sync with *my* mail passwords. What am I, as the user, supposed to do? Send a mail to root saying "oh, my mail password at random.site has changed"? Who reads that mail? Who has access to it? Does it get printed out and left on a desk somewhere, or in someone's inbox on a random desk? No, if someone wants to know my details, they can come into my $HOME and get them. Come up with a secure mechanism whereby that information can be shared with a single administrator responsible for administering /etc/fetchmailrc and then perhaps we'll talk. -- Marc Wilson | There are only two kinds of men -- the dead and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the deadly. -- Helen Rowland
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