From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 15 14: 2:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7338437B407 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 15X7nu-0005Di-00 for security@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:02:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:02:18 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <20010815170217.F14206@pir.net> Reply-To: security@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200108151940.f7FJepc73604@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 04:59:42PM -0400 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. 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 Garance A Drosihn probably said: > "cron'd events", such as if you add your own cron jobs, cron will > email you if the process fails, or output from the process when > it succeeds (depending on how you have the job setup). Cron itself > expects it can send mail. So does lpd (if a user does 'lpr -m', > for instance). So why can't we run sendmail by default, just with no '-bd' option so it doesn't listen on port 25. Local mail will get delivered, it's not a remote security problem ... P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message