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From: Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: sendmail help 
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--- Kennebunk Mailing List <brentb@loa.com> wrote:
> Im running FBSD 4.3..doing virtual web hosting /
> mail ..etc....I recently
> upgraded sendmail  to the newest version. ..any who
> ...i did as the
> intructions ( INSTALL.txt ) to make a
> user/group called...
> smmsp
> 
> thing is .....after i did the upgrade the sendmail
> process still runs as
> root...  ( i know this is a BAD thing.... so i
> intend to fix this ASAP )
> does anyone have howto on changing the user that
> sendmail runs  "root"  to
> "smmsp" instead ...i know this requires changing
> ownership of the
> directories used by sendmail ...like /var/mail/     
>  etc..
> thanx in advance  for any and all help ..
> 
> Brent
> 
> 
This may help a little.
There have been some changes to how sendmail is ran
and
started in FBSD in the last few weeks (big thread in
Stable mailing list).But here is a message about the
mta running as root and the submission running as
smmsp.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=433134+0+archive/2002/freebsd-stable/20020407.freebsd-stable


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