On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 08:43:19 -0500 "David A. Bandel" wrote:
> Alan Jackson wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:57:46 -0700 Ken Moffat wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd like to know the differences I can expect to encounter if I go from
> > > eD2.4 to RH7.1. There are probably many subtle differences, and I
> > > thought someone might have some thoughts?
> > > Got 3 cd's in the RHL7.1 Bible. Popped one in and it wants to install
> > > right away, fired up X immediately.
> > > Thanks for any info....
> >
> > I just did this a few months ago. Now I'm trying to move from RH 7.1 to
> > Caldera 3.1.
> >
> > RH has it's nice points, teh new KDE for example. However, perl is broken,
> > gcc has probnlms, and I have some nagging problems I don't understand that
> > I hope will go away when I get Caldera running.
> >
> > The thing I hate is that they don't use /usr/local like everyone else. Or
> > /opt. Makes it harder to segregate executables onto other disk partitions
> > and generally manage stuff.
> >
> > And the new sendmail caused me lots of grief - if you use .forward be prepared
> > for trouble. Here are my notes from when I worked through it ...
> >
>
> Instead of defeating sendmail security, why don't you just fix
> permissions on the .forward file? Would have been a _lot_ easier and
> faster. Now when you upgrade again, you'll be facing the same problems,
> again. I think you should treat the disease, not the symptoms.
It's not a .forward permissions thing. The default is not to allow a .forward
that actually does anything useful, like execute code or redirect output.
My permissions were 700. The problem is a lot stickier than that. My
understanding is that they are saying, in effect, "allowing users to have
.forward execute code is a huge security hole, so they can't". That is
a true statement, I'm just willing to take the risk.
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