From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 24 1:51:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2423F37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de (accms33.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.46.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A9743E3B for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:51:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA14874 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:51:47 +0200 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:51:47 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <200207240851.KAA14874@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: port 587 - submission service open, why? Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I installed 4.6 on my mobile computer gladly noting that when testing it using nmap ( http://www.insecure.org/) only ssh, smtp aand another service which was unknown to me until now was open. I'm just wondering why on the one hand care is taken to close as much as possible then on the other hand a comparably unknown and maybe untested service is opened to the outside. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message