Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!decuac!bacchus.pa.dec.com!hollie.rdg.dec.com!jch From: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Update on Sendmail problems Message-ID: <1990Nov7.140131.2909@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Date: 7 Nov 90 14:01:31 GMT References: <9010192109.AA01121@polymer.che.clarkson.edu> <1990Nov2.145406.1449@hollie.rdg.dec.com> Sender: news@hollie.rdg.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 19 In article <1990Nov2.145406.1449@hollie.rdg.dec.com>, jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) writes: |> |> The ULTRIX V4.0 sendmail includes a fix for a rather interesting |> security hole that, among other things, involves changing the |> definition of the local mailer. This is important. If you don't |> make the change, then all mail appears to come from daemon, which |> is what you are seeing. I don't believe that the sun version of |> sendmail that you are running includes the fix so it isn't |> surprising that the config file works for the sun machine but |> not for the dec machine. This is a the solution to a problem that isn't the topic of discussion, sorry. -- -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>