On Thu, 09 May 2002, Robert Paulsen wrote:
Well, everyone on my system is allowed to use the -f option too. It's just that a warning message gets logged in /var/log/mail and the outgoing email also includes the warning. It is the warning I am tryoig to avoid.
Yes that is true ... but only for trusted user the warning message should not been written ... this works for root but not for so called trusted-users ... the -f command line switch can be used to forge mail ... sendmail always inserts a warning into the message header ... a trusted user is one who is exempted from having such warnings included ... and from this pint of view the SuSEconfig-file trusted-user is not working ... under pre-V8 sendmail trusted users were those who are allowed to use the -fcommand line switch ... you are right that changed now is everyone allowed to use it. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit ...