On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:34:52PM -0800, Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Ah.. so should every user get put in here? Should sendmail be stopped and
> started every time a change of this sort needs to be made?
>
> Maybe instead of appropriate file rights, everyone should have the root
> password? It gets the job done rather well, it seems.
This is silly. It's trivial to set sendmail up so it refers to a file
consisting of the list of trusted users, so there's no need to put an
arbitrary number of users in /etc/sendmail.cf, nor to restart sendmail
upon updating it. If one wants to let a lot of users do this, one will
have to put a lot of users in some file, be it the one I'm thinking of
or the one you're thinking of. None of these files can be
world-writable, 'cause that's just stupid, so root will have to deal
with any change anyway. A more sensible solution if one wanted to let
lots of users do this would just be to turn off this particular
X-Authentication-Warning header altogether. Anyway, he's not talking
about letting lots of users do this, just one, so his solution is a
perfectly good one. Get off your high horse.
-Daniel
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Daniel Eisenbud
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