Why are only admins allowed to AUTH to lmtpd?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Rob Siemborski wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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> >This is all working fine, except that I had to add my dummy authentication user
> >(which I create solely for Exim to authenticate itself to lmtpd with) to the
> >"admins" entry in /etc/imapd.conf. I had to do this because lmptd specifically
> >allows only admins to authenticate.
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> use lmtp_admins if you don't want to give that user full admin rights.

OK, I hadn't found that option yet. It's perfect for what I need.

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> >Is there any particular reason why? It's not a big deal for me, but when
> >I document this configuration for other people I'm sure this will raise
> >some eyebrows.
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> There's no reason regular users should be submitting to the LMTP server,
> they should be submitting using SMTP to an SMTP server, and then the LMTP
> server trusts the SMTP server.  This (admitedly marginaly) simplifies the
> authorization code in lmtpd.

True enough. In my case, the LMTP server listens only on a TCP socket on the 
loopback interface, and there are no shell accounts on this system, so it's 
fairly secure already.