Re: setting access rights to priviledged ports

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:20:53 +0200

> >ipfwadm -I -a accept -r 10025 -p tcp -S 0.0.0.0/0 -D (youtIP)/32 25
> >
> >set sendmail to use port 10025 and you are done.

Not good. Everyone can bind to that high port, so when sendmail is not
running, any luser could set up his own and steal peoples' mail.

olaf

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