From: Rosenbaum, Larry M. (no email)
Date: Sun Jan 08 2006 - 16:27:55 EST
From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme [mailto:]
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:34 -0500, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> > From: Andrew Morgan [mailto:]
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> >
> > > This script requires a password, which means you have to run it
> > > interactively or else put the password in a file. I'm looking for
a
> > > noninteractive way to create a mailbox without having to put a
> password
> > > in a file.
> >
> > Let's think about this... You're looking for a way to have admin
> > privileges without authenticating for them? Sounds like trouble to
> > me... :)
>
> Well, you'd have to be "root" or "cyrus" to run it.
| you'd have to be "root" (or whatever) to read the file with password,
| too.
That's a good point. Our security gurus frown on putting passwords in
files, but in this case it isn't as insecure as I originally thought. I
may consider it if I can't think of anything better.
Larry
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