RE: [SLUG] mail server.

From: Jeff Barriault (jeffbarr@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 22:17:10 EST


Thanks for the security tip, but since this is on my internal home network
that I'm just playing with things on I don't think there's much of a
security risk.

<snip>

MAJOR SECURITY HOLE outlined above:

This exposes the root password every retrieval

All root mail should be forwarded to an end user account --
indeed, forwarding it off box is even better.

-- Russ Herrold



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