Matthias Apitz wrote:
I have read the above page during my configuration but it does not explain to me which user must be configured in U: value; Is it me? Or is it the userID the sendmail daemon is running as? It works with "U:root", but what does this mean exactly?
That's a SASL thing -- it has the concept of differentiating between authentication ID (who you are (and you can prove it because you have the password or other security token)) and authorization ID (who you are logging in as, and whose permissions you can use on the remote server). According to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README:
The RHS for an AuthInfo: entry in the access map should consists of a
list of tokens, each of which has the form: "TDstring" (including
the quotes). T is a tag which describes the item, D is a delimiter,
either ':' for simple text or '=' for a base64 encoded string.
Valid values for the tag are:
U user (authorization) id
I authentication id
P password
R realm
M list of mechanisms delimited by spaces
You don't generally need all of these items. For the simplest case,all you'ld need is U:username and P:password -- if you don't give I:authid explicitly it assumes it is the same as U:username (and vice
versa, if you give I:authid and not U:username).
Cheers,
Matthew
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