On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:25:17PM -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> Quoting Tim Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 02:31:39AM -0400:
> > * More generally, configuring an MTA when you are not thoroughly
> > familiar with it can introduce security risks.
>
> This is not true. A daemon, perhaps, but if you install ssmtp in ~/bin and
> make it only executable by you, the security risks are less than those of,
> say, rm.
That is what a knowledgable and experienced person would do, but we
are talking about the naive and clueless. Some of these people do not
even know the difference between a daemon and a client. If they
download an old copy of sendmail and just try to follow all of the
instructions....
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Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer
