Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Unix security list - status & more
Message-ID: <1988Nov9.195841.5703@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2355@isis.UUCP> <4646@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 88 19:58:41 GMT

In article <4646@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>And ironically enough, even as this discussion continues, thousands of
>machines are bitten by a simple security hole in sendmail that could
>have been fixed *had it been widely publicized*.

Ah, but *would* it have been fixed?

(The first reaction around here to the news of the worm was "ho ho,
serves them right for running sendmail!".  We concluded long ago that
sendmail is, for all practical purposes, incomprehensible and unmaintainable,
and therefore we do not run it.  We continue to be amazed at all the
man-years of effort people pour into supporting that abomination.)
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