From owner-freebsd-security Fri Sep 22 1:39: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from atlas.bit.net.au (atlas.bit.net.au [203.18.94.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE4437B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pdh@localhost) by atlas.bit.net.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8M8cab31964; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:38:36 +1000 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:38:36 +1000 From: Phil Homewood To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults! (Was: Re: wats so special about freeBSD?) Message-ID: <20000922183836.G27376@atlas.bit.net.au> References: <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000920125405.D22272@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921113652.053d4960@localhost> <20000921210521.A17973@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA8E45.7DA45048@softweyr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921182152.046d6ee0@localhost> <20000922103446.A25222@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000922103446.A25222@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:34:46AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > email clients use sendmail to send mail. If sendmail isn't running, it > doesn't queue. We'll just lose that mail to a black hole. That isn't > obvious. You could default to running sendmail without the "-bd" flag and have a checkbox to enable "this machine wants to accept email from the network", maybe? Just a thought... -- Phil Homewood pdh@asiaonline.net Senior Technician +61 7 3620 1930 Asia Online (Brisbane) http://www.asiaonline.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message