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Article #28Re: Problem with X25 mail transfer ownership
From: Andrew Findlay
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 1990 14:50
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 1990 14:50
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| /usr/lib/sendmail address | |then hhq shows the transfer belonging to daemon. But if I explicitly select |the _same_ configuration file, with | | /usr/lib/sendmail -C/usr/lib/sendmail.cf address | |hhq shows the transfer as owned by the issuing user. The RFC822 headers |in both messages are identical and correct. Correct. When you specify a config file of your own, you might be trying to compromise security in some way. Sendmail sets its UID back to match yours. |Our old sendmail (Berkely sendmail 4.something) didn't do this!). Security hole! |that's being used in case 1, and I can't take the option of using sendmail |5.61IDA) Why not? It is backwards-compatible in almost all respects. Andrew -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!daemon From: Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) Newsgroups: mail.uk-sendmail-workers,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Problem with X25 mail transfer ownership Message-ID: <28997.9006061451@Pluto.ft.brunel.ac.uk> Date: 6 Jun 90 14:50:59 GMT Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Lines: 31 Approved: usenet@cs.glasgow.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <7036.9006061101@central1.lancaster.ac.uk>; from "Postmaster" at Jun 6, 90 12:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2-hd PL 10]