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Re: QMail and DJB ... was Re: [LIH] any one using djbdns?

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Subject: Re: QMail and DJB ... was Re: [LIH] any one using djbdns?
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:34:17 +0530
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Kiran Jonnalagadda rearranged electrons thusly:

> Sendmail insists on running as root. No matter how many issues have been 
> found of late, I'm not trusting anything that accepts external connections 
> while running as root. Plus support programs like newaliases are a sym-link 
> to the sendmail binary. Yuck!
 
It's still secure, given all the "run as root" reasons quoted.

	--suresh

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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin

References:
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  - From: Binand Raj S.
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