Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:29373 comp.unix.ultrix:6518 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!jch 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: <1991Mar12.143810.7383@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 14:38:10 GMT References: <1991Mar12.011642.17723@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> <1991Mar12.035457.18829@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Mar12.102259.1777@hollie.rdg.dec.com> <1991Mar12.130319.14972@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@hollie.rdg.dec.com (Mr News) Reply-To: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 15 In article <1991Mar12.130319.14972@mp.cs.niu.edu>, rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: |> Mode 600 prevents someone running 'strings' on the freeze file. But it is |> pretty easy to coax 'sendmail' in to generating a core dump owned by the person |> who invokes 'sendmail', and all the same information should be there. This |> risk is also present if you don't use a freeze file. How? sendmail catches the quit signal and you can't send it your favourite core-dumping signal unless you are root. Unless you have a dead-cert bug that makes sendmail drop core every time .... -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>