On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Brandon Hutchinson wrote: > Just make sure you are using an up-to-date SMTP agent. I don't think Sendmail > has had a remote root exploit since 1997, but has had some recent local root > exploits. > > I don't know if identd (113) is actually needed, although I think remote MTAs > attempt to query your ident server to find the UNIX user sending mail. It is > probably also necessary for IRC. I don't think having it open is very risky.
Also, FWIW you can "turn off" the ident function of sendmail, which also speeds it up when sending. Under the timeouts section, find a line with Timeout.ident and make it: O Timeout.ident=0s - Ralph
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