Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:38:26 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Alan Clegg <alan@clegg.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail_enable NONE Message-ID: <20020328223826.F28059@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020328163551.B77823@shell.wetworks.org>; from alan@clegg.com on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:35:51PM -0500 References: <20020327154948.26668.qmail@web11602.mail.yahoo.com> <20020327115442.C27253@shell.one.net> <000c01c1d5bb$38e336e0$11fd2fd8@westbend.net> <20020327200304.C43825@mail.webmonster.de> <20020328133020.B6416@hub.freebsd.org> <20020328163551.B77823@shell.wetworks.org>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:35:51PM -0500, Alan Clegg wrote: > Unless the network is lying to me again, David O'Brien said: > > > So what?? > > sendmail binaries have a tendancy to be security problems. (and no, I'm > not advocating any change at this time, just playing devil's advocate) the root account has a tendency to be a security problem. Lets remove it. :) Basically: binaries sitting on a disk are harmless (but take space) as long as they don't get run. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands We are FreeBSD. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be committed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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