Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:02:50 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: mtts <adm@gus.orgus.ru>, FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: trouble Message-ID: <19980908130250.C13053@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <199809081001.QAA04193@gus.orgus.ru>; from mtts on Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:21:29PM -1000 References: <199809081001.QAA04193@gus.orgus.ru>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon 1998-09-07 (22:21), mtts wrote: > Some not very friendly people told us that our EMAIL-servser has a hole > in securety. That's possible, there have been two security problems in the past few months - one with the bind name server (which affected most unix operating systems), and another with qpopper, the POP3 daemon used in default FreeBSD installs. > Can You tell us what kind of problems may be with it and how to solve them. Solve them: Use cvsup (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html) to update your ports collection, and install the new popper port. Alternatively, install the package, which you should be able to find on the FreeBSD ftp site, ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/, somewhere. To solve the bind problem is a bit more complex, you may want to disable bind if at all possible, otherwise solving it involves installing the bind8 port/package, or using cvsup to upgrade your sources to a later version. Info on this is all available in the handbook - http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980908130250.C13053>