Subject: Re: privilege "separation" vs. saved set-user-ID
To: Dan Melomedman <dan@devonit.com>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@mac.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/10/2003 15:52:48
At 10:17 AM -0400 9/10/03, Dan Melomedman wrote:
>Greg A. Woods wrote:
>  > Unfortunately it doesn't do something like Sendmail one bit of good in
>>  many modern systems, at least not with the default configs and installs,
>>  since any foreign code exploit can just make use of the saved
>
>Sendmail is so horrible, the modern systems should just simply ship with
>something else instead, Postfix is a good alternative, and so is Courier.

Modern systems *do* ship with something else...but they're nice 
enough to let us decide for ourselves which to use :)

Mike
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