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Re: [suse-security] mail relaying, SuSE 7.0
- From: jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:23:09 -0800
- Message-id: <20001101142309.A4093@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:43:47PM -0700, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> I think sendmail supports it now, but postfix supports using databases as the
> config files, i.e. virtualusertable is in a MySQL DB, meaning changing it on the
> fly is trivial. Also one HUGE advantage in postfix and qmail is that they only
> run a small component as root, so if there is a buffer overflow/etc it is less
> likely to be fatal, whereas sendmail is a huge blob of run as root code.
Sendmail does not have to run as root. You can make it drop all root privledges and change to a different user. It just depends on your mail system setup.
-miah
> I think sendmail supports it now, but postfix supports using databases as the
> config files, i.e. virtualusertable is in a MySQL DB, meaning changing it on the
> fly is trivial. Also one HUGE advantage in postfix and qmail is that they only
> run a small component as root, so if there is a buffer overflow/etc it is less
> likely to be fatal, whereas sendmail is a huge blob of run as root code.
Sendmail does not have to run as root. You can make it drop all root privledges and change to a different user. It just depends on your mail system setup.
-miah
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