Internet Virus: SunOS patches

[David F. Carlson]

In article <76493 at sun.uucp>, chuq at plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> The following modifications have been approved by Sun Microsystems
> Customer Support to fix the current Internet Virus problem.  This is a


Its probably in the past enough to wonder what the h&%$ SUN and other vendors
like Mt. XINU were *thinking of* when they went into the Makefiles and enabled
the known security risk of sendmail debug mode.  In this forum, (under its
previous incarnation as unix-wizards), it was a known fact that sendmail
contained a back door debug mode as wide as a football field.  I cannot 
figure out why these companies propagated this "bug" when even I was familiar 
with this "problem" from this net though I am certainly not a security or 
sendmail specialist.

It will be a long time before we have a responsible user community.  Some
vandals will always be around.  But we must have responsible vendors to
make it hard on them.

-- 
David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc.
micropen!dave at ee.rochester.edu

"The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll