Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:45:58 +1100 (EST) From: proff@suburbia.net To: moke@fools.ecpnet.com (Jimbo Bahooli) Cc: maikel@stack.nl, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail....tricks... Message-ID: <19970106024558.12279.qmail@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970105200147.29517A-100000@fools.ecpnet.com> from Jimbo Bahooli at "Jan 5, 97 08:09:57 pm"
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> > On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Maikel Verheijen wrote: > > Maikel Verheijen > > Well sendmail needs to access the users mail files, there is no way around > this. Its the lesser of two evils, I'd rather have someone reading users > emails, then running around my system uid 0. > > About connecting to the 'real' sendmail, that would just bypass logging. > If the sendmail was running non-root on a non-root port it would have no > effect because it still would not be running as root, the redirector on > port 25 is just to make it compatible with the rest of the worlds systems. > > -moke@fools.ecpnet.com > > > See my new firewall code for a solution.
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