PM Mail/2 under a Novel/Pegasus system

John Thompson pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 19 May 2000 06:39:00 -0500 (CDT)


On Thu, 18 May 2000 22:18:25 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>I've heard of people forging email that apparently came from the 
>us president - a quite well known attack exploiting an ftp server, 
>so that the email really did come from the mail server there - 
>there're  a whole raft of security holes in the disparate unix 
>systems out there - many people don't apply patches - until its 
>too late!

In hiring System Administrators, as in other things, you tend to get what
you pay for.  A competent SysAdmin should know that a significant part of
the job is staying on top of the security issues for the various systems
they admin.

John (john.thompson@attglobal.net)