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Re: [cobalt-security] sendmail questions...?



From: WebFusion System Administrator <graeme.f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Graeme for the clarifications.

About the ttyS0 connection, which shows as

> > > 641 ttyS0    S      0:00 /sbin/mgetty -s 115200 -r -b ttyS0

you wrote:

> Not UUCP - it's the default serial console login setup, listening for
> people attaching a console or console emulator to the serial port -
> ttyS0. It's a very useful way to debug and repair broken RAQs when you
> can't get into them - like if they've been trashed by a cracker, or not
> patched to fix the 'Large groups -> FTP slowdown' bug.

But the question remains, who is using this port, am I right?

Michael