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From: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: How does sendmail get UUCP host names?
Keywords: uucp
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.102259.1777@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 10:22:59 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.035457.18829@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
|>  (A particulary undesirable approach uses
|> FU/usr/lib/uucp/L.sys
|>  which has the wonderful effect of putting all passwords in L.sys into
|> the freeze file, and into an core dumps from sendmail).

Except that sendmail makes sure the freeze file
is mode 600 ... we like to fix security holes.
-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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