dealing with dictionary attacks

[Steve Campbell]

Quoting Res <res at ausics.net>:

> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Steve Campbell wrote:
> 
> > OH NO, WHAT HAVE I DONE?
> >
> > Sorry Ken, there is no patch to fix my non-existant problem.
> 
> OK since your now in denial and wont patch it, I will write  a generic 
> patch that might help ;)
> 

Well, I had one, but I was afraid people might really use it;-). It basically
renames the init.d MS script, symlinks MS to the original sendmail init script,
and voila, no more MS swapping, and mail still gets delivered.

If it fails, remove the MS symlink, and rename the original MS init script back. 

Now, since people say I have a very dry sense of humor, never smile when I say
these strange things (or put smiley faces anywhere), that they never can tell
when I'm joking. 

So I'm really serious here when I say: DON'T DO THIS UNLESS YOU REALLY
UNDERSTAND THAT I AM NOT SINCERE ABOUT DOING THIS.

OK, I'm backing out of this now for the last time.

Steve

> 
> >
> > Steve Campbell
> > campbell at cnpapers.com
> > Charleston Newspapers
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken A" <ka at pacific.net>
> > To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: dealing with dictionary attacks
> >
> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Steve Campbell wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Res" <res at ausics.net>
> >>> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> >>> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 6:09 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: dealing with dictionary attacks
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Steve Campbell wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> So what do I do with this huge patch I have compiled that fixes it
> all?
> >>>> 
> >>>> I dunno :) since I nor anyone else that I noticed, could reproduce the 
> >>>> problem on linux or slowaris at least.
> >>> 
> >>> Well, ever since I applied the patch here on my servers MailScanner 
> >>> doesn't swap. You don't think one of my assistants published my patch 
> >>> without telling me and you all have been using it, do you?
> >> 
> >> Would you please just post your patch to the wiki already?
> >> Just be sure to obfuscate the code! I loaded my swap as a tmpfs, so that 
> >> solved my problem. ;-)
> >> Ken A
> >> Pacific.Net
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Res
> 
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