From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 30 9:28:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from helios.man.lublin.pl (helios.man.lublin.pl [194.92.17.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB688152DA for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sopel@nemezis.ipan.lublin.pl) Received: from nemezis.ipan.lublin.pl ([193.59.19.154]:3538 "EHLO nemezis.ipan.lublin.pl" ident: "sopel") by helios.man.lublin.pl with ESMTP id <5517-864>; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:27:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:29:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Wojtek To: "Pedro J. Lobo" Cc: Robert Watson , Fernando Schapachnik , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does mail.local need to be setuid-root? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org greetings. i think that mail.local is a real mess (there were various exploits for it). why not switch to a more decent mail distribution program (procmail ?) as a default for freebsd. the other thing in question is - should sendmail be the default mail agent on freebsd ? there are many substitues for it which have proven to be more secure (postfix - by Wietse Venema, or zmailer, qmail, and so on..). what do the core team think about this ? sopel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message