Hi guys,
As sendmail showed to be so vulnerable in the past, and even in the recent past, I was wondering to propose removing it from the default install on freebsd. Currently, sendmail comes with the system sources, and runs as root. I think this is bad, and it could be replaced with qmail, for example. Or, something else, if you think something else is more secure. Please let me know if this is possible, or why if not, and to whom shall I address this idea (I wonder why it didn't happen yet).
It is possible to delete the sendmail and replace to the different MTA on your own. To not have or change the different MTA by default in FreeBSD isn't going to happen anytime soon, anyway. I would love to see to get rid of sendmail too, thought. I don't have Sendmail in my server, which it has been replaced to qmail and sometime I want to try to replace from BIND to djb's libdjbdns.
If anyone want to get rid of BIND, Sendmail and etc by default, the only way that I can see at the moment is.... *cough* fork FreeBSD *cough*.. or wait until libh project finishes or in future version of FreeBSD like 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 or so (maybe never)..
Cheers, Mezz
Best Regards, Alin.
-- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
