Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:55:59 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>, "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: Mark Hartley <mark@work.drapple.com>, twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible security liability: Filling disks with junk or spam Message-ID: <20020622045559.41921.qmail@web10106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3D13FFB2.39A80570@pantherdragon.org>
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When I asked if it would break something to forward those accounts' mail to /dev/null instead of root, I meant: do those psuedo-users actually send anything via mail or everything via syslog? Excuse the strange question, I'm a psuedo-admin (aka user). --- Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> wrote: > "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." wrote: > > > > Better yet, comment out the lines in /etc/aliases, > > which will cause the mail to be returned > > since that user won't exist. > > > > Why increase the spam traffic by the use > > of the bitbucket? If the mail doesn't come > > back they just keep sending...... > > Without the aliases(5) entries, the mail will be > delivered to local > mailboxes for those pesudo-users, eventually filling > the disk if you > don't monitor disk usage. This was precisely the > problem for Brett's > client. IMO the proper way to handle this is to use > an MTA that has > some kind of access-control mechanism to restrict > mail delivery to > non-user accounts in addition to having a forwarding > mechanism for > them. ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Only fools have all the answers. ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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