>the 1st internet worm in 1988 was enabled because of the root access >backdoor written into Sendmail.
If I remember correctly, that "back door" was only available when Sendmail was run in debug mode. I seem to remember this because a friend of mine, Henry "no relation" Hall, was going to join us for dinner at the Hacienda Mexican restaurant on Daniel Webster Highway in Nashua with a bunch of other Digital people. Then I heard on the car radio about this "worm" that was attacking systems. I gleaned enough from the radio broadcast (an oddity in itself) to relay this to Henry, who instead of coming to dinner made sure that the gateway email servers in Digital were running Sendmail with debug mode turned off....keeping Digital from being affected. Unfortunately for most Unix systems, distributing and running Sendmail in debug mode was much more the practice of the day in 1984. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark on a worldwide basis (R)UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other countries. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
