At 13:10 11.05.2000 -0700, James P. Salsman wrote:
>These sorts of things are less common on the more heterogeneous
>Unix world, but Unix mailers are just as culpable. If I wanted to
>be consistent, I would demand that anything I run on Unix (without
>a special permitted shell) which connects to port 25 should be
>intercepted, wrapped with an "ok queued" SMTP response, and
>forwarded to me instead. Would anyone argue that isn't reasonable?
Yes, but only because I have 15 different programs that more or less
indirectly invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail for various reasons.
Most of them are tools invoked from cron.
In a fine-grained capabilities control system, I'd have the "send email" as
one access control descriptor I could grant these programs.
But that's not been implemented in any widespread system I know of.
Harald
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