On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 08:45:11PM -0800, Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > It was found that sendmail's -f option will allow you to forge the
> > > > envelope line. Adding myself as a (Thypnotik) trusted user to sendmail's
> > > > configuration file ceased the X-Authentication warnings.
> > >
> > > Warning: you might as well be sending mail as "root" then, since you're
> > > giving yourself the right to do just about anything with sendmail.
> >
> > Really? I thought that v8 sendmail basically igored trusted users
> > except for turning off the authentication warnings for them. I might be
> > wrong...
>
> Maybe .. I haven't look at this part of the code in a long, long time :-)
Looking at the sendmail docs does in fact confirm this.
> In any case, it isn't the right answer. UserDB or genericstable are the
> general approaches to doing exactly what he needs.
And this provides a specific approach to doing exactly what he needs.
What makes it not the right approach? Yes, there are other perfectly
good ways of doing this, and no this was not the one you thought of
first, but it gets the job done rather well, it seems.
-Daniel
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Daniel Eisenbud
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