How does sendmail get UUCP host names?

John Haxby jch at hollie.rdg.dec.com
Tue Mar 12 20:22:59 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar12.035457.18829 at mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
|>  (A particulary undesirable approach uses
|> FU/usr/lib/uucp/L.sys
|>  which has the wonderful effect of putting all passwords in L.sys into
|> the freeze file, and into an core dumps from sendmail).

Except that sendmail makes sure the freeze file
is mode 600 ... we like to fix security holes.
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John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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