From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 24 17:56:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA27843 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:56:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27838 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA26654; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:25:45 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611250155.MAA26654@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail (Re: non-root users binding to ports < 1024 (was: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2 In-Reply-To: <199611250003.SAA13671@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Nov 24, 96 06:03:29 pm" To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:25:44 +1030 (CST) Cc: peter@taronga.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > While I agree with Jordan's assessment that you are sniffing glue, I > WOULD agree that it might be reasonable to change the Sendmail bias > in /etc/sysconfig (etc) to be more generalized, like the way the > gated/routed switch is currently handled. One can simply install the > qmail port (I assume there is one!) and then toggle a few bits. Sounds like a winner to me too. Peter, as you know a bit about Qmail, could you come up with a paragraph or two about it for the handbook? If it is indeed a secure sendmail replacement, then we should point people at it in all the "right" places. I'm sure we can prevail on someone to SGMLify it if you don't grok SGML (like me, fe.). -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[