Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 06:20:18 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com> Cc: Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1@optusnet.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail: "exposed" root, why? Message-ID: <20080109042018.GA13913@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4783C048.9080403@ridecharge.com> References: <8EE4A2AA-E15D-4C07-AFBC-061A4595DA82@optusnet.com.au> <4783C048.9080403@ridecharge.com>
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On 2008-01-08 13:26, "Philip M. Gollucci" <philip@ridecharge.com> wrote:
> Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
>> Hello,
>> From the sendmail documentation:
>> "There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is, their
>> internal site name should be displayed instead of the masquerade
>> name. Root is an example (which has been "exposed" by default prior
>> to 8.10)."
The `root' user is no longer exposed, so the really *imporant* question
is ``why are you still running Sendmail 8.10?''
> There is no directive, but you can edit the resultant .cf file
> and remove the line
> C{E}root
> or root from that line if more than one user.
The expose directives were part of the default OSTYPE and DOMAIN macros:
OSTYPE(freebsd6)
DOMAIN(generic)
> Be warned, you _will_ break /etc/crontab and periodic scripts mail
> delivery.
That's a possibility, yes :)
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