Ultrix 4.1, local mail is from daemon
Peter Murray
pemurray at miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Sat Jan 5 14:59:20 AEST 1991
In article <9101040511.AA04290 at belch.Berkeley.EDU>, rusty at BELCH.BERKELEY.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:
> Local mail on my DECstation always has daemon in the From line,
> although the From: line shows the correct sender. Here is a sample:
>
> From daemon Thu Jan 3 20:59:36 1991
> Received: by belch.Berkeley.EDU (5.57/1.41)
> id AA04254; Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 91 20:59:35 -0800
> From: rusty (Rusty Wright)
> Message-Id: <9101040459.AA04254 at belch.Berkeley.EDU>
> To: rusty
>
> I suspect that its from the Ou1 that's in the sendmail.cf file that we
> use here at UC Berkeley. But if I remember correctly, that's been
> there forever; why don't other sendmail's put daemon in the From line?
> Is there something other than Ou1 that I should have in my sendmail.cf
> file? Or should I delete it?
Is sendmail running set-uid? (It needs to be.) Is 'root' one of the
'Trusted users'?
I seem to recall the setuid problem on SYSV machines, but I guess it could
happen on BSD too...
Peter
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