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Subject: Security
From: Eric Klien <oceania @ enet . net>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:33:05 -0700
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com, paul%av2 . vrx . vhi . com @ vhipub . vhi . com

[Relevant message attached at end of this file.]

O.K.  Here is my original aliases file:

# Oceania-l Mailing List
oceania-l-outgoing: :include:/home/oceandom/lists/oceania-l
oceania-l: "|/home/oceandom/bin/wrapper resend -p Bulk -A -a /home/oceandom/lists/oceania-l.passwd -l oceania-l -f owner-oceania-l -h oceania.org -s oceania-l-outgoing"
owner-oceania-l: oceania
oceania-l-owner: owner-oceania-l
oceania-l-request: "|/home/oceandom/bin/wrapper majordomo -l oceania-l"
oceania-l-approval: oceania

Would I change it to following?

# Oceania-l Mailing List
oceania-l-plugh: :include:/home/oceandom/lists/oceania-l
oceania-l: "|/home/oceandom/bin/wrapper resend -p Bulk -A -a /home/oceandom/lists/oceania-l.passwd -l oceania-l -f owner-oceania-l -h oceania.org -s oceania-l-outgoing"
owner-oceania-l: oceania
oceania-l-owner: owner-oceania-l
oceania-l-request: "|/home/oceandom/bin/wrapper majordomo -l oceania-l"
oceania-l-approval: oceania

And how would I change resend?

Eric

Relevant message:

"A suggestion would be to have an entry in the configuration file that
specifies the suffix to append to the list name.  For example, if the
outgoing expansion list is aliased as <list>-plugh, then the config
file would have "plugh" as the outgoing suffix.  Then resend will take
the list name, append the dash and the suffix, and finally send it to
that alias.  Thus, 1) allowing removal of the destination alias in the
list alias of the resend line, and 2) thereby creating a more secure
method with minimal recoding.

Here's a sample:

config file contains suffix of "plugh"

/etc/aliases:

ctp-list: "| /usr/local/majordomo-1.93/wrapper resend -l ctp-list -h
av2.vrx.vhi.com -f ctp-list-owner"
ctp-list-approval: ctp-list-owner  
ctp-list-plugh:
:include:/usr/local/majordomo-1.93/mail/lists/ctp-list
ctp-list-owner: ctp 
ctp-list-request: majordomo
owner-ctp-list: ctp-list-owner
owner-ctp-list-outgoing: sample-owner"

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