Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:41:53 -0600 (CST) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org 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 Message-ID: <199611250041.SAA08169@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199611250006.KAA25958@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 25, 96 10:36:57 am
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> "Sendmail is the de-facto Unix standard mail delivery agent. Is is > continually subjected to rigorous security scrutiny and frequently > updated. Don't make me laugh. It has more security holes revealed per year than every other setuid program in UNIX put together. > - expose a pile of security holes that the Qmail developer(s) never > thought existed. Have you looked at qmail? The bits exposed to the outside world don't even run as root. EVER. > - make FreeBSD the laughing stock of the unix community. The part of the UNIX community that doesn't care about security, anyway.
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