Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:52:27 +0000 From: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail Message-ID: <Mutt.19961126105227.nik@blueberry.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199611260319.VAA16166@brasil.moneng.mei.com>; from Joe Greco on Nov 25, 1996 21:19:04 -0600 References: <8666.848973403@time.cdrom.com> <199611260319.VAA16166@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Joe Greco writes:
> Advantages:
>
> 1) Enhanced security through reduction of unnecessary setuid programs
> on a particular machine.
[...]
x) Makes it very ease for those that want Perl/Tcl/foo in the 'base'[1]
system to have it, without bloating the system for those of us that
don't.
N
[1] Where 'base' is some notional component installed for novices, that
may, in fact, consist of more than one of the existing distributions.
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