Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 02:04:15 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM target Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970503060415.0095c4bc@mindspring.com>
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At 06:38 AM 5/3/97 +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: >The thing *I'd* like to know is how to get Earthlink to stop allowing >relay. I've e-mailed them the sendmail rules on how to do it, so they >can't claim ignorance. Sure they can. There's an ISP near here that is so poorly run that they can't get anything right. For example, normal users could telnet into the mail server. Their solution? Disable telnetd on the mail server. They forgot to disable rlogin. They also reportedly had the permissions wrong on /tmp. A friend of mine (who is one of their customers) emailed them the exact command "chmod 1777 /tmp". Their response? "We're working on it.". Some people *really* are *that dumb*. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"
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