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Subject: Re: security of lists in unix system
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 28 Apr 1998 09:51:28 -0500
To: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Christopher Lindsey's message of Tue, 28 Apr 1998 08:48:52 -0500 (CDT)
References: <199804281348.IAA10920@ferret.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

>>>>> "CL" == Christopher Lindsey <lindsey@ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:

CL> Can you add the uid that your MTA is running as to the group
CL> 'majordomo'?

You can, but it still won't work.  Sendmail can end up running as any user
on the system, depending on who sends the message.  It is possible that
there is some sendmail hackery that will enable it to work like you want,
but so far nobody (even Sendmail experts) has been able to make it do so.

 - J<


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