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Date:      Sat, 12 Apr 1997 12:13:26 +1000
From:      Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
To:        pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... 
Message-ID:  <199704120213.MAA10732@topaz.nemeton.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95.970411173738.36236A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> 

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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:52:20 -0500 (EST)  pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co wrote:

> Mprog,          P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
>                 T=X-Unix,
>                 A=sh -c $u
> _____________
> I have not heard of cracking attempts to sendmail RECENTLY,

These days they're just a given.  Only worth a comment when someone
breaks (publically) the latest released version.

>  but it IS
> recommended to use smrsh (included with sendmail) on all versions. Why
> aren't we including this?

Because this requires (as you know) that vacation, procmail and
whatever else people use from .forward files be installed in the one
directory that smrsh will run programs from.  This will break existing
installations.

I recommend that we make this change for the 3.0 release.

Giles



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