[ILUG] box hardening...

John P . Looney john at antefacto.com
Thu Dec 21 14:12:55 GMT 2000


 Hey up. I'm hardening a box, and first thing is to spot any setuid
proggies & wipe ones that don't need to be there.

 If a machine isn't supposed to be receiving or relaying mail (just
sending it the odd time), is there any reason to have a setuid sendmail
binary ?

john

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