Re: Database password encryption in dbmail.conf

Thomas Raschbacher <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:58:20 +0200
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On 2018-07-04 15:54, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 04.07.2018 um 15:45 schrieb Thomas Raschbacher:
>> I guess you could write a patch for that, but you would need to
>> make sure that seed is stored somewhere the admins cannot access
>> it, otherwise the whole thing would be pointless (or only making it
>> a bit more complicated for someone who really wants to do it).
>> Alternatively what would probably be easier would be to write a
>> patch to load the database config from a different location, and
>> make that file not readable by your admins (through whichever
>> means) but only readable by root / the dbmail process
> 
> can't work - dbmail-util needs to read it too and so the user invoking
> dbmail-util is able to do the same
> 
Well I *think* you could probably only allow dbmail-util process 
/executable to read the file and no others using SELinux or something 
like that but that seems rather complex .

> either i am admin for a service or not.....
that is what I think too to be honest .. i mean with maildir based 
servers the admins would still have access to all the mails too so ...


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