Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:06:46 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps ax/sendail Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006080003460.20321-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <20000607231912.A5191@dan.emsphone.com>
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Why would sendmail want to use auth to determine a user name for someone that is not local to our networks and has no user name? Or am I missing the point of what you are saying? Keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> ================================= On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 07), keith@mail.telestream.com said: > > >From time to time I see entries like the following in a ps ax on > > our mail server. It's curious because of the IDENT. I don't think I > > see this in normal mail transactions and am wondering if this is > > something to be worried about. > > > > sendmail: server IDENT:root@ithotel.dk [194.255.38.180] cmd read > > That just means that "ithotel.dk" initiated an SMTP connection to your > machine, and sendmail used the auth protocol to determine the username > of the sender. Otherwise, you would just see "server ithotel.dk". > Nothing to be worried about. > > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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