Re: Trojan-modified Sendmail floating around - 8.12.6 - Since Sept. 28th or earlier.

Bill Stewart wrote:

Somebody backdoored the source code for Sendmail on the official server. So if you recompile from scratch, your sendmail is 0wned. Another reason not to run mail systems as root....

In this case, as I understand it, it bites when you compile. So, its another reason not to build them as root. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff