Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:45:06 -0500 From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@trigger.net> To: "Wilko Bulte" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "Alan Clegg" <alan@clegg.com> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: sendmail_enable NONE Message-ID: <HPEHJFKBNEHFPAOFMEDDEEHLDCAA.mikej@trigger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020328223826.F28059@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wilko Bulte Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:38 PM To: Alan Clegg Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail_enable NONE > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:35:51PM -0500, Alan Clegg wrote: > > Unless the network is lying to me again, David O'Brien said: > > > > > So what?? > > > > sendmail binaries have a tendancy to be security problems. > (and no, I'm > > not advocating any change at this time, just playing devil's advocate) > > the root account has a tendency to be a security problem. Lets remove it. > > :) Yes, but unfortunately we need the root account. > Basically: binaries sitting on a disk are harmless (but take space) as > long as they don't get run. True, however what does not exist can not be exploited. I think that removing software that is not needed is a great process towards a better system, security and functionality wise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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