Hi Ben,

> It seems that I was building the aliases.db incorrectly (using "makemap
> hash aliases.db < aliases" instead of "newaliases")

Ah ! a little different. :)


> But surely it does as the admin users are unable to edit the
> aliases.db file?...

/etc/aliases should be owned by admin.admin and sendmail should be root.root
with +s privileges.

> # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid)
> O DefaultUser=root:admin
> 
> But strangely when I telnet to the smtp port on the VS, "ps -aux"
> shows that sendmail is running as the admin user and NOT root.

You have sendmail running as deamon or using xinetd ?  Are you specifying a
different user than root in /etc/xinetd.conf ?

Regards,
_______________________________________________________
Urivan Saaib
Presidente
CiberNET Mexico 
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