Re: sendmail -C: Known? Patches? (AIX 4.1.5)

Eric Allman (eric@SENDMAIL.ORG)
Wed, 06 Aug 1997 15:02:16 -0700

As near as I can tell, no sendmail from Berkeley (back to 5.61, that
is, 1988, and probably before -- that was just the earliest one that
I had available to check) had this problem. I suspect that if the
problem exists at all, it is IBM-specific.

eric

============= In Reply To: ===========================================
: From: "DI. Dr. Klaus Kusche" <Klaus.Kusche@OOE.GV.AT>
: Subject: sendmail -C: Known? Patches? (AIX 4.1.5)
: Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:07:36 PDT

: On several not-so-official WWW pages, I found a hint that
:
: /usr/lib/sendmail -C <any-file-you-want-to-read>
:
: produces "interesting" output.
:
: I tried that on our AIX 4.1.5 (as an ordinary user!) with
: "/etc/security/passwd", and it indeed displayed all the
: shadow passwords.
:
: I checked IBM's and CERT's archives about it and found nothing.
:
: Questions:
: 1.) Is the problem known?
: 2.) Does IBM have a fix for it?
: 3.) Is it fixed in the latest (non-IBM) sendmail releases?
:
: DI. Dr. Klaus Kusche
: Oberoesterreichische Landesregierung / Government of Upper Austria
: Rechenzentrum / Computing Centre
: Smail: Kaerntnerstrasse 16, A-4020 Linz, Austria (Europe)
: Phone: +43 732 7720 - 3394 Fax: +43 732 7720 - 3198
: Email: Klaus.Kusche@ooe.gv.at