How does sendmail get UUCP host names?

[John Haxby]

In article <1991Mar12.130319.14972 at mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
|>  Mode 600 prevents someone running 'strings' on the freeze file.  But it is
|> pretty easy to coax 'sendmail' in to generating a core dump owned by the person
|> who invokes 'sendmail', and all the same information should be there.  This
|> risk is also present if you don't use a freeze file.

How?  sendmail catches the quit signal and you can't send it
your favourite core-dumping signal unless you are root.
Unless you have a dead-cert bug that makes sendmail
drop core every time ....
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