Re: Security issue: Changing welcome/greeting message.

2002-06-25 Thread Jesse W. Asher
I don't think I want to generate a patch because I made some other mods (unrelated to this) as well. First, I'm running imap-2001a.RELEASE-CANDIDATE.1 (don't know if this is the latest release or not). I modified ./src/imapd.c. Edit the file and search for IMAP4rev1. In my version, I went

Re: Security issue: Changing welcome/greeting message.

2002-06-25 Thread Friedrich Lobenstock
Jesse W. Asher wrote: > > BTW, I just modified the code and commented out all these pieces of > information and recompiled. Everything seems to be working fine Patches? Where? -- MfG / Regards Friedrich Lobenstock

Re: Security issue: Changing welcome/greeting message.

2002-06-25 Thread Jesse W. Asher
The issue isn't that the capabilities are displayed - the issue is that information like the host name and the time are displayed.  Here are a couple of examples of why both of these are important: 1)  In this particular instance, I have a server that sits behind a host-based firewall that se

Re: Security issue: Changing welcome/greeting message.

2002-06-24 Thread Jesse W. Asher
That's exactly what I was concerned about as well as the time information.  I found where it is embedded in the code, but is there a way to customize/remove this information (not the capabilities info) using a config file? Thanks for the reply!! Mark Crispin wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Je

Re: Security issue: Changing welcome/greeting message.

2002-06-24 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jesse W. Asher wrote: > I'd like to change the welcome/greeting message that is displayed by > imapd and pop3d. Right now, it's displaying all kinds of information > that I don't want outsiders to know. What information, other than the program's version number and the DNS na

Security issue: Changing welcome/greeting message.

2002-06-24 Thread Jesse W. Asher
I'd like to change the welcome/greeting message that is displayed by imapd and pop3d. Right now, it's displaying all kinds of information that I don't want outsiders to know. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to modify this and can I do it without recompiling? Thanks!! -- Jesse