From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 19 19: 1: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09447159FB for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA07030; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:00:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990919195722.047b2e20@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:00:12 -0600 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Real-time alarms Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199909200154.SAA56892@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <4.2.0.58.19990919175752.04577a20@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:54 PM 9/19/99 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >And you surely don't want you notification mechanism to be a something >that lives in that ``outer permiter'' now do you. That is where e-mail, >particularly sendmail, lives. Who says that the agent that sends the notifications needs to go through sendmail? (It's pretty trivial to do SMTP directly.) Or that sendmail should be in the outer perimeter? (It's a good idea to sandbox sendmail and BIND; I believe that OpenBSD does this to both by default now.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message