Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!spl1!laidbak!rmiller
From: rmiller@laidbak.UUCP (Richard J. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Internet Virus: SunOS patches
Summary: picky, picky, P I C K Y, picky
Message-ID: <1775@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 04:36:48 GMT
References: <76493@sun.uucp> <580@micropen>
Reply-To: rmiller@laidbak.UUCP (Richard J. Miller)
Organization: Lachman Associates, Inc. Naperville, Il.
Lines: 17

In article <580@micropen> dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
>
>Its probably in the past enough to wonder what the h&%$ SUN and other vendors
>like Mt. XINU were *thinking of* when they went into the Makefiles and enabled
>the known security risk of sendmail debug mode.

to put it bluntly, no one was thinking about it. from time i have spent
in 2 major UNIX ports (including an AT&T sysV.3), the problem is that
there are SO MANY details that most of them get lost the second time
they need to be done. the little details like install scripts that are
so BORING for the developer are still extremely important.

how many systems get shipped with the same permissions as were used on
the (final) system test lab? think about it.

Rich Miller
{sun, amdahl, att (maybe)}!laidbak!rmiller