From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 29 20:27:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA03433 for security-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA03424 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA17737; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:55:47 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707300325.MAA17737@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from "Jay D. Nelson" at "Jul 29, 97 10:11:19 pm" To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay D. Nelson) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:55:47 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, adam@homeport.org, robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM, security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jay D. Nelson stands accused of saying: > Your choir is singing to my preacher. I've got no problem making UUCP > optional. I would install it, though it would be totally overlooked by > most new comers. Which is probably a good thing. Agree. > I've had a few clients that wanted to do the SMTP thing on demand. > Thankfully, after explaining what is involved, I haven't had to to that > yet. Newer sendmails make it _moderately_ painless. I do quite a lot of work for another ISP that uses it very heavily (I think they have about a thousand dialup push-SMTP customers), but IMHO it's a lot more work to set up, and the running cost for the customer is higher in low load cases. > -- Jay -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[