On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:05:47 am Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Steve Grubb sgrubb@redhat.com wrote:
We ran into a problem doing the LSPP evaluation with regards to email. Of all the packages listed, the only one that really mattered for security was cron. So, what we did was patched cron to be able to take an argument, -m, to define the mail delivery agent. It could be a shell script, procmail, or anything you wanted to take the cron output and move it into the local spool dir. Would using this solve the problems being debated here? (And since cron can take a mail agent argument, it should not have a hard requirement for sendmail.)
How would you expose the option to use the argument for a local admin?
In /etc/sysconfig/crond, there is the CRONDARGS variable where it can be set.
-Steve