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From: Sunny Dale <s.dale@gmx.net>
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To: Kennebunk Mailing List <brentb@loa.com>
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Subject: Re: sendmail help
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Kennebunk Mailing List 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
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>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 ..
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>Brent
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i dont know whether this is out-dated:
http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/1997/freebsd-security/19970105.freebsd-security.html 
(at the bottom)

http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/sendmail.html

maybe changing mta isnt a bad idea too?


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