On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:44:18PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian typed:
> Babu Kalakrishnan rearranged electrons thusly:
> 
> > Also root not being masqueraded is probably because it is specified in
> > the EXPOSED_USER class. (I think the default cf file includes root in
> > the list). So removing the line that says "CE root" from the sendmail.cf
 
> correct... it will
 
> > should fix that. (Haven't tried it though - because I've never seen a
> > reason to send outgoing mail as root :))
 
> security holes galore, that way

Hmmm.. ?? Can u elaborate ?? I thought that entry was there just so that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] shouldn't be confused as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (since both
could be different entities)

> sendmail 8.11.2 (or anything abv sendmail 8.10) doesnt have that problem at
> all, though (masq of the envelope as root works)

Still on 8.9.3 - Haven't bothered to tinker with something that seems to
work well :)  How does it 8.10+ re-implement the EXPOSED_USER class ?

Kala


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