Update on Sendmail problems

John Haxby jch at dyfed.rdg.dec.com
Thu Nov 8 01:01:31 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov2.145406.1449 at hollie.rdg.dec.com>, jch at 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.
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