full-disclosure - Sidewinder G2 Firewall

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Message-ID: <200311141956.hAEJuo6a003521@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Sidewinder G2 Firewall 

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:01:03 PST, Daniel Sichel <daniels@...derosatel.com>  said:

> The downside is the suckers run sendmail. It is in a jail but still...
> Its sendmail. Anybody out there who has substituted Qmail on one of
> these? If not, any advise on what stupid things I can avoid while
> configuring these. I say these because we are in a high availability
> scenario. 

At which point, you *really* have to ask yourself which is more *total* risk:

1) Running a fully patched Sendmail on it. (If the vendor's sendmail *ISNT*
fully patched, I have to question the wisdom of buying *FIREWALL* gear from them
at all)

2) Risking breaking stuff by replacing it with qmail.

Remember - sooner or later, you'll be wanting to apply a vendor patch, and
if it assumes sendmail is installed... well... things can get ugly...  And
that's something you don't want in an HA situation.  Spending 20 minutes with
somebody over a beer brainstorming will come up with lots of OTHER ways you can
accidentally scrozzle yourself (anybody ever replaced a *nix vendor's default
root shell with /usr/local/bin/fancy-shell-du-jour, and been screwed to the
wall when /usr/local didn't fsck clean? ;)
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