Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:33:22 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: brantk@atlas.com Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, peter@taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail Message-ID: <199611252133.PAA15621@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199611252128.NAA12882@itchy.atlas.com> from "Brant Katkansky" at Nov 25, 96 01:28:48 pm
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> > That extends to other things as well. :-) Anybody want to write a little > > tool that "knows" how to do this, configurably? Maybe some mtree files > > plus a little menu widget. > > > > A quick inspection reveals that the following files (maybe more) are suid: > > [snip] > > > It seems to me that many of these are parts of various system "services" > > (UUCP, LPR, Mail, YP, rcmds). What might be way cool is a program that > > presents a menu such as > > > > System Services > > --------------- > > enabled A) Sendmail > > disabled B) UUCP > > disabled C) Printing > > enabled D) IIJ-PPP > > disabled E) sliplogin > > I think this is something I'd be interested in doing. > > How 'bout I do it as a command-line util first (cf. pkg_* tools) > and then wedge in a convenient user interface later? That would certainly be appropriate, at least from the point of view of MTA's, or alternative printing mechanisms. pkg_control -disable sendmail perhaps, for an install of Qmail, Smail, etc. People will argue over whether to simply remove suid bits or to make it mode 000... (This might even help to lay the foundations to start packagizing a lot of the "base" system components. There is no real reason to have a lot of this stuff on something like a router. I might like very much to remove Sendmail, or the LPR stuff, etc., from a router at some point.) But little steps first. ;-) If I can offer any advice, please do not hesitate to ask. ... JG
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