From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 26 02:53:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA20123 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 02:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from coconut.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA20117 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 02:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by coconut.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) id KAA28833; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:52:27 GMT Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:52:27 +0000 From: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail References: <8666.848973403@time.cdrom.com> <199611260319.VAA16166@brasil.moneng.mei.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: Blueberry New Media In-Reply-To: <199611260319.VAA16166@brasil.moneng.mei.com>; from Joe Greco on Nov 25, 1996 21:19:04 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Ten-Thousand-Dimensional Web in Heaven and Net on Earth ]ENTP