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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:45:02 -0500
From: Michael Urban <murban@tznet.com>
To: root <root@snoopie.yi.org>
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: /etc/defaluts/rc.conf
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You are right from what I can tell. It looks like they intended to
change the /etc/defaults/rc.conf to have inet.d, sendmail, and
portmap off by default. However, it also looks like that never got
done. It maybe has been fixed by now. The STABLE tree changes on a
regular basis as improvments and fixes are made.

P.S. Not a good idea to send and recieve mail as root. A better idea
is to alias root so that it forwards root's mail to your normal user
account. The reason for this is in case bugs are found in the email
client that allow someone sending you mail to execute code (see
recent buffer overflow errors in Pine for a good example). At least
as a normal user, the code can only execute with normal user
privilages and not as root.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 03:28:30AM -0500, root wrote:
> Hello..
> 
> 	I was just wondering about an entry in /usr/src/UPDATING.  I just
> cvsup'ed/mergemaster'ed today.  The section in question is:
> 
> 20000907:
>         Networking defaults have been tightened.  Anybody upgrading
>         /etc/defaults/rc.conf needs to add the following lines to
>         /etc/rc.conf if they want to have the same setup
>         afterwards (unless the variables already are set, of course):
>                 # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
>                 inetd_enable="YES"
>                 portmap_enable="YES"
>                 sendmail_enable="YES"
> 
> 
> Thats fine.. but no entries in /etc/defaults/rc.conf have changed to reflect
> this entry.
> 
> # egrep "inetd_enable|portmap_enable|sendmail_enable" /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> inetd_enable="YES"              # Run the network daemon dispatcher (or NO).
> portmap_enable="YES"            # Run the portmapper service (or NO).
> sendmail_enable="YES"   # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO).
> 
> # diff /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> # ls -la /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  17014 Sep  1 03:00 /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf
> # ls -la /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  17014 Sep  6 03:14 /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> 
> 					Thanks,
> 					Eric Brueggmann
> 
> 
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