Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

From: Gábor Lénár (lgb@lgb.hu)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:56:32 EST


On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:49:57PM +0200, Pjotr Kourzanoff wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-2] Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> >
> > Or even without xinetd. Just use local port forwarding eg 2525 -> 25, and
>
> This is more like 25 -> 2525 :-)

OK, that was a hard night for me, I need some sleeeeeep :)

> > use port 2525 as SMTP port in your MTA. I've succeed to setup such a
> > configuration.
>
> This requires you to ensure that your MTA is started first on that
> port...Might be difficult to achieve reliably in an automatic way
> without root privileges :-(
>
> mailuser@foo% /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
> badguy@foo% ./suck 2525
> mailuser@foo% /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start

Yes, you're right. But this is a mail server without any user on it
(even users are authenticated from LDAP).

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