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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:33:35 +0600
From:      Tim Pierce <twpierce@bio-3.bsd.uchicago.edu>
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com
Cc:        peter@taronga.com, 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:  <9611251733.AA10822@bio-5.bsd.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199611250144.TAA13851@brasil.moneng.mei.com> (message from Joe Greco on Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:44:29 -0600 (CST))

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Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> said:

> > Have you looked at qmail? The bits exposed to the outside world don't
> > even run as root. EVER.
> 
> As a matter of fact, the last Sendmail security problem involved a bug
> that I suspect people would also have claimed "[the] bits [that are]
> exposed to the outside world don't even run as root."

I sincerely hope you don't think of this as a point in sendmail's
favor.




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