Re: spamassassin a possible security risk?

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On Die, 2004-10-19 at 11:56 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> spamd *does* have the option to use ident, though, which would be
> sigificantly better. (Since it *is* only bound to localhost, one would hope
> one can trust the identd on the local machine.) However, this requires a
> command line option that the Fedora package doesn't appear to use, and more
> importantly, it requires the Net::Ident perl module, and perhaps even more
> importantly, it requires the identd to tell the truth, at least to daemons
> running locally.

I have just tried to use this option, but after installing Net::Ident it
only seems to trigger some rather obscure bug in authd:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136392

Using uidentd (http://www.unoc.net/a/uidentd/) works though.

Tom

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