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From: Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay)
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Subject: Re: Problem with X25 mail transfer ownership
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Date: 6 Jun 90 14:50:59 GMT
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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

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