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From: Brant Katkansky <brantk@atlas.com>
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Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
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> That extends to other things as well.  :-)  Anybody want to write a little
> tool that "knows" how to do this, configurably?  Maybe some mtree files
> plus a little menu widget.
> 
> A quick inspection reveals that the following files (maybe more) are suid:

[snip]

> It seems to me that many of these are parts of various system "services"
> (UUCP, LPR, Mail, YP, rcmds).  What might be way cool is a program that
> presents a menu such as
> 
> System Services
> ---------------
> enabled  A) Sendmail
> disabled B) UUCP
> disabled C) Printing
> enabled  D) IIJ-PPP
> disabled E) sliplogin

I think this is something I'd be interested in doing.

How 'bout I do it as a command-line util first (cf. pkg_* tools)
and then wedge in a convenient user interface later?

-- Brant Katkansky (brantk@atlas.com)
   Software Engineer, ADC