Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:07:35 -0600, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On the other hand the 'solution' of supplying a badly misconfigured
> sendmail.cf and very unfriendly documention about fixing it is
> just bizarre to the point of leading to discussion about replacing
> sendmail as the default mailer...  An access file that only allowed
> localhost by default would be just fine, thanks.

The default sendmail configuration shipped with FC doesn't listen to
the network at all.

dnl #
dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback address
dnl # 127.0.0.1 and not on any other network devices. Remove the loopback
dnl # address restriction to accept email from the internet or intranet.
dnl #
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl

On my system, this is commented out as my machine is used to actually
receive email from the Internet.

-- 
Chris

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