On Thu, 09 May 2002, Robert Paulsen wrote:
I have *hacked* a fix to the problem described in the note included below. It turns out that SuSEconfig generates *two* sendmail.cf files. Actually one is named submit.cf. These are them:
/etc/mail/submit.cf /etc/sendmail.cf
O.K the same on my system
Only the *second* one lists wwwrun as a trusted user. Here is the relevant section of /etc/sendmail.cf:
##################### # Trusted users # #####################
# this is equivalent to setting class "t" #Ft-o /etc/mail/trusted-users %[^\#] Troot Tdaemon Tuucp Tmdom wwwrun root uucp daemon mail
The file /etc/mail/submit.cf does not contain the last line above. If I copy that line into /etc/mail/submit.cf, I no longer get the Authentication-Warnings.
For my understanding it is working the other way around ... all the files in /etc/mail are changed then you run SuSEconfig and information will be trynsported to the sendmail.cf file
I still don't know why it makes no difference what I put into /etc/mail/trusted-users. And, of course, when I do this SuSEconfig now complains that I have modified the file.
I tested some things by myself and here is what I found: On my sendmail configuration it does not matter what you write in the trusted user file because everyone is allowed to use the -f option ... I think this is a bug ... I created a new user without inserting his name in the trusted user file and he was able to use the -f option ... I think this is not o.k. Oliver