On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Hans Wilmer wrote: > How is this dealt with in respect to security and reliability?
Only admins can do this for any username, there is a config option that allows authenticated users to do this for their own mailbox, but no others. > Just write a script that logs in and automatically creates mailboxes > from randomly generated (user-) names until the storage is > full. That's sort of making DOS attacks utterly easy. If your admins are trying to DOS you, you've got bigger problems. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
