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)