From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 16 20:44:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F062D37B8FB for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:44:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrace@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 43377 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2000 03:44:19 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (203.36.209.235) by iserver.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 17 Apr 2000 03:44:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 91478 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2000 03:44:19 -0000 Received: from dhcp8.itworks.com.au (HELO paranoia) (203.36.209.217) by maybe.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 17 Apr 2000 03:44:19 -0000 From: "Richard Grace" To: "'Alfred Perlstein'" Cc: Subject: RE: ports error - won't load - setuid uucp - hylafax Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:45:32 +1000 Message-ID: <004501bfa81f$627599b0$d9d124cb@itworks.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000416134135.Y4381@fw.wintelcom.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Remove the line FORBIDDEN from the makefile but be aware that > installing > hylafax will make your machine insecure, meaning it can be hacked. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] I've done this myself on a recent installation... Does anyone know if this insecurity is being looked into, or if there is already a patch? There is no mention of any security issue/patch on the HylaFAX site (as far as I cna tell). Richard Grace To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message