Am 21.04.2014 03:39, schrieb Lars Seipel: > Nicely aligning with the current firewall thread I noticed that one of > my machines was running the exim MTA for the last few days, dutifully > listening on all interfaces and now it is *proven for sure* that disable the firewall by default is the most dumb thing a distribution can do drago01 will now say again "that is a bug" yes, in that case in *two* packages at the same time but hwat matters is the impact of a bug * smartmontools wanted sendmail instead MTA for sending sysmessages * sendmail obviously has a braindead default configuration listening on all ports * sendmail service is obviously enabled at install time even if smartmontools only need /usr/sbin/sendmail all things i said that they are happening and will happen again and again while they get fixed here and there - again and again - that's life so you can run in circles and shout "that is a bug" which is true and while you are fix it it brings people in trouble or you have by default a security layer which hopefully does not open port 25 automated because you install sendmail the next problem: even if such a bug is fixed the affected users keep to be fucked because the updated smartmontools only require any MTA (which is correct) and so nothing will remove sendmail on that machines nor close port 25 after a update of smartmontools https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=511458 * Thu Apr 17 2014 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1:6.2-5 - require /usr/sbin/sendmail as MTA is not provided by all packages (#1048618) * Tue Apr 15 2014 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1:6.2-4 - use MTA instead of sendmail as a requirement (#1048614) * Thu Apr 10 2014 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1:6.2-3 - add mail requires (#1048614)
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