FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail

[Dmitry Pryanishnikov]

Hello!

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>>  This doesn't change sendmail's identification string - it's still "8.13.1"
>> on RELENG_4_11, which makes detection of unpatched systems more difficult
>> to sysadmin. Wouldn't be wise to add, say, "-p1" to this string in
---^^^^^^^^^^^

  I meant just this - to sysadmin, not to attackers.

>> version.c?
>>
> It depends on what you think about whether it's good or not
> that it's undetectable.  I prefer it to be not-detectable.

  So do I - that's why I removed version info from my settings for 
confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG long time ago ;)


Sincerely, Dmitry
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