Yo,
"To suid or not to suid".
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.10/op-sh-4.html
Ye're grand.
Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: John P . Looney [mailto:john at antefacto.com]
Sent: 21 December 2000 13:05
To: Irish LUG list
Subject: [ILUG] box hardening...
Hey up. I'm hardening a box, and first thing is to spot any setuid
proggies & wipe ones that don't need to be there.
If a machine isn't supposed to be receiving or relaying mail (just
sending it the odd time), is there any reason to have a setuid sendmail
binary ?
john
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