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Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 01:22 schrieb Tommy Wareing:
>
> There's the question of security: this now allows a breached
> postfix to rewrite resolv.conf for the rest of my machine, although
> only that single file. So it's safer than not chroot-ing, but not as
> good as fixing all the applications which write to resolv.conf
> (linuxconf and dhcp being the two I can think of, but there may be
> sufficient others to mean this isn't viable).
>
> Of course, if we ever have two different chroot'd applications, this
> won't be viable, so in the long term, it's still a potential problem.

with the resolv.conf there is a simple solution: setting up a local 
cachingonly nameserver and ignore the warning of postfix for different 
resolv.conf file.

btw: only the masterdaemon of postfix runs as root. all the other are 
running als postfix and cannot change resolv.conf.

Martin
>
> But at least I can continue to outfunction all our office Solaris
> boxes ;-)

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