you really need to look at the mail log to see where the mail is coming
from regardless of your firewall settings. It can actually come from inside
you see.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Noah Mehl <n...@tritonlimited.com> wrote:

> I am seeing more spam in my mail queue.  I have iptables installed, and
> here are my rules:
>
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target     prot opt source               destination
>
> Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
> target     prot opt source               destination
> ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
> ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            icmp any
> ACCEPT     esp  --  anywhere             anywhere
> ACCEPT     ah   --  anywhere             anywhere
> ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             224.0.0.251         udp dpt:mdns
> ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:ipp
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ipp
> ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state
> RELATED,ESTABLISHED
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp
> dpt:pcsync-https
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp
> dpt:http
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp
> dpt:xmpp-client
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp
> dpt:5223
> ACCEPT     all  --  192.168.0.0/16       anywhere
> ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW udp
> dpt:sip
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp
> dpt:sip
> ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW tcp
> dpt:sip-tls
> ACCEPT     udp  --  sip02.gafachi.com    anywhere            state NEW
> udp dpts:sip:5080
> ACCEPT     udp  --  204.11.192.0/22      anywhere            state NEW
> udp dpts:sip:5080
> REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with
> icmp-host-prohibited
>
> As far as I can tell, no one should be able to use port 25 from the world.
>  Also, sendmail is only configured to allow relay from localhost:
>
> [root@sipx1 ~]# cat /etc/mail/access
> # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description
> # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file)
> # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc
> # package.
> #
> # by default we allow relaying from localhost...
> Connect:localhost.localdomain           RELAY
> Connect:localhost                       RELAY
> Connect:127.0.0.1                       RELAY
>
> Can someone please help me figure out where this spam is coming from?
>  Thanks.
>
> ~Noah
>
> On Oct 13, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Noah Mehl <n...@tritonlimited.com> wrote:
>
> > I did not change the configuration of anything related to the PlcmSpIp
> user.  It does however make me feel better that it is related to the vsftpd
> service and the polycom phones.
> >
> >> From /etc/passwd:
> >
> >
> PlcmSpIp:x:500:500::/var/sipxdata/configserver/phone/profile/tftproot:/sbin/nologin
> >
> > So, that user cannot ssh to a shell. So I don't think it was that.
> >
> > ~Noah
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Tony Graziano <tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> ... more -- its a user that does not have login to the OS itself, just
> >> vsftpd, which is restricted to certain commands and must present a
> >> request for its mac address in order to get a configuration file. It
> >> is not logging into linux unless someone changed the rights of the
> >> user.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:30 AM, George Niculae <geo...@ezuce.com>
> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Tony Graziano
> >>> <tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net> wrote:
> >>>> this is not a valid system user unless you have manually added it to
> the
> >>>> system. I do think the logs would show more if access was granted.
> Why are
> >>>> you exposing sshd to the outside world with an acl or by protecting
> it at
> >>>> your firewall?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> PlcmSpIp is the user used by polycom phones for fetching config from
> server
> >>>
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