Re: Sendmail Weirdness, Or Welcome to WinHat 7.1

[Chuck Mead]

* Trond Eivind Glomsrød ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Chuck Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > For a very, very long time Red Hat has been repeatedly accused of
> > releasing their distro in an insecure state... sendmail was always
> > released as an open relay
> 
> Bsst... it haven been allowing relays for a loong time (RHL 5.0?
> Perhaps even earlier).

Accused... teg... accused... but I go back that far... and more...
:-)

> > telnet was enabled by default, many, many, many ports were left open
> > to the world by default. 
> 
> Only if you installed the packages. The telnet server, to give one
> example, wasn't installed on workstation class installs. Neither was
> inetd. 

That's now... the packages were not always split...

You have nothing to justify for me... I never cared about
defaults... my systems do what *I* want them to do! I like the fact
that things are tighter now... good work!

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