[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA?

[Luc Menut]

Le 21/09/2011 20:35, Florian Hubold a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> during validation of validation of msec/sectool update candidates,
> a problem showed up: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621
...
>
> But if we want security reports to be sent to local users if they
> specify so, how to proceed further?
>

msec can work very well without sending these reports by email; all the 
security's reports are available in /var/log/security, and msec notifies 
the user about this at each time it runs, so sendmail is absolutely not 
mandatory.
So I think that msec shouldn't have a Requires on sendmail-command, 
eventually it can be a Suggest.

But perhaps we could/should change the configuration of msec to not send 
email by default, by adding MAIL_WARN=no in 
/etc/security/msec/security.conf.


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Luc Menut