Daniel Rychlik wrote: > How do I stop this from happening. Apparently my bud telented to port 25 > and somehow sent mail from my root account. Any suggestions, white papers > or links? Id would like to block the telnet application all together, but I > dont think thats possible.
He didn't use your root account, he used the nature of SMTP to trick you. http://rfc821.x42.com/ And no, you can't block telnet, unless you choose to not run a mail server at all. -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "Paranoia is a disease unto itself, and may I add, the person standing next to you may not be who they appear to be, so take precaution." -Sathington Willoughby -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]