Howdy all

On 15 May 2023, at 17:18, Ian Z via Exim-users <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Have secrets in a separate file?

That can be done already, in a variety of different ways. I suggest you have a 
read of the documentation.

That said, a lot of server software which may use privileged ports or provide 
access to content - like Apache httpd, Tomcat, MariaDB, PostgreSQL etc - do not 
allow arbitrary non-privileged users to read their configuration.

It's not security by obscurity, it's a basic fundamental good practice on 
UNIX-like systems and it's been like that since the very early days of the OS. 
It's not likely to change any time soon.

Graeme

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