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Hello Doug,

Monday, October 01, 2001, 3:48:20 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

>         I've been looking into using MySQL instead of CDB for
> VPopMail, but I noticed that the MySQL username and password were
> stored in the
> binaries.  This is a significant problem for me, since any user
> could do `strings vchkpw` and find the username/password to connect
> to MySQL.  

Have a look at
http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=212036



>         I realize that I can setup a username/password that only
> has access to the VPopMail data, but even that is too much access,
> IMHO.
>         Are there plans to store this information in a config file
> that can be set to only be read by the VPopMail user/group?


What does this get you over the alternative of having chmod 100 on
the vpopmail files?





Best regards,
 Gabriel


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