Re: Two questions about task-harden.
Previously Brian Sniffen wrote:
> Sure, but there are plenty of other MTAs which can be used in place of
> sendmail. Sendmail has a history of security problems; postfix and
> exim have a history of reasonably secure behavior. A machine with
> sendmail installed *isn't* hardened.
To be fair, the sendmail code has improved a lot recently and it actually
quite decent now, and other mailers such as postfix and exim have not
been around long enough or are used as often as sendmail to have received
the same amount of scrutiny.
Wichert.
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