> > is this related to the smrsh? I think my sendmail is still running as > root... > > root 5165 0.0 0.6 3820 860 ? S Oct13 0:00 sendmail: > accepti > > I am not following all the instructions in the sxs yet. smrsh is not as > trivial as it looks for newbies like me. > >> authinfo (I'm going from memory here) no longer works. It been >> replaced by a tag with similar data in the access database. The >> access directive has new parameters. Also, sendmail can't access the >> /etc/sasldb file since only root has permission to do that. Changing >> the permission causes complaints that the file has wrong permissions. >> You can work around this by including a DontBlameSendmail directive in >> sendmail.mc. >> >
If you're still running sendmail as root then you have an older version of sendmail. The newer ones have changed this to a non root user for security reasons. If a hacker is able to cause a buffer overflow on a root owned process and take over then they're now running as root...obviously not a good thing! Redhat 8.0 uses a non root sendmail. Redhat 7.3 didn't. All of this is documented either on the sendmail.org site or (on a Redhat system) in /usr/shared/doc/sendmail*/README.cf. The newer sendmails also have made the other minor changes I mentioned (minor if you know about them - serious if you don't). For instance, sendmail.cf is now in /etc/mail instead of /etc. Gerry _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
