From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 0: 6:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D7137B510 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:06:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20376; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:06:46 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:06:46 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps ax/sendail In-Reply-To: <20000607231912.A5191@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ================================= 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