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. This is the primary source of the Exim Manual. It is an xfpt document that is
.code
exim -bP qualify_domain hold_domains
.endd
+.oindex "&%hide%&"
However, any option setting that is preceded by the word &"hide"& in the
configuration file is not shown in full, except to an admin user. For other
users, the output is as in this example:
.code
qualify_domain = mydomain.example.com
.endd
+.oindex "&%hide%&"
+.cindex "configuration file" "hiding sensitive data"
+.cindex "options" "hiding from extraction"
Some option settings may contain sensitive data, for example, passwords for
accessing databases. To stop non-admin users from using the &%-bP%& command
line option to read these values, you can precede the option settings with the