Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?
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- Subject: Re: Can postfix misconfiguration lead to OS breakage?
- From: Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:22:37 +0700
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Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Boyd:
> Can your kernel flash your BIOS? In theory it could hide there and in
> whatever NVRAM your system has.
I use common kernels from common repos. Can they?
> When you "reformat" do you simply repartition and recreate filesystems,
> leaving your MBR intact? It could hide there.
I did recreate an FS on another logical disk while installation and that did
rewrite MBR too for the new boot configuration.
So, can the postfix config files relating to chroot make such a security
breach?
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