Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 08:53:00 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: newton@communica.com.au (Mark Newton), batie@agora.rdrop.com, adam@homeport.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). Message-ID: <96Nov18.085304pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:45:35 PST." <E0vPLaR-0003jx-00@rover.village.org>
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In message <E0vPLaR-0003jx-00@rover.village.org>you write: >In message <9611180312.AA15775@communica.com.au> Mark Newton writes: >: ... create the mailbox at the same time that you create >: the user ... > >And if that file is ever removed? Then you are SOL. Then you exit with EX_TEMPFAIL and log an error. sendmail will keep the mail in the queue, and the person monitoring the logs will notice and recreate the missing mailbox. Bill
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