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Subject: Re: I know somebody knows the answer...
From: Alvin Oga <alvin @ planet . fef . com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:45:23 -0800 (PST)
To: mrwilder @ uswest . net (Clayton McGow)
Cc: Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM (Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM)
In-reply-to: <3A23811A.F268CA16@uswest.net> from "Clayton McGow" at Nov 28, 2000 02:55:38 AM


hi clayton..

you cannot do your telnet trick as administor or anything else...
you can send mail mailly with telnet if you specify all the required header info

where is the reset of yoru majordomor config items/files ??

- did you put ns1 into /etc/sendmail.cw ?? ( raq7 is in it to ?? )

c ya
alvin

> Clayton McGow wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My copy of majordomo ran fine on our machine (several
> virtual domains + multiple IPs) until I changed the primary
> interface name from "raq7.atoznet.com" to "ns1.atoznet.com". 
> 
> I can still send email to the lists just fine, and they go
> through to the subscribed members. However, I am no longer
> able to send email to majordomo@atoznet.com, nor am I able
> to send email to majordomo@ns1.atoznet.com.
> 
> If I telnet in as an administrator, I can type "echo
> 'help'|mail majordomo", but I cannot issue the same command
> if I telnet in as a normal user (I get a 550 error,
> nonPriviledgedUserName@ns1.atoznet.com - unknown user,
> presumably because these users can only be sent email at
> atoznet.com, NOT ns1.atoznet.com) .
> 
> I have these records, among others, in the dns settings:
> A	atoznet.com -> 63.230.201.226
> A	www.atoznet.com -> 63.230.201.226
> A	ns1.atoznet.com -> 63.230.201.225
> P	63.230.201.225 -> ns1.atoznet.com
> P	63.230.201.226 -> www.atoznet.com
> M	atoznet.com is sent High to atoznet.com
> 
> and all the services on this box are working fine, including
> telnet, ftp, pop, imap, smtp, web, you name it.
> 
> this line is in aliases.majordomo:
> majordomo:      "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
> 
> these lines are in virtusertable (I've tried the remarked
> out ones, too):
> #majordomo@atoznet.com  majordomo_site1
> #majordomo@www.atoznet.com      majordomo_site1
> majordomo@atoznet.com   majordomo
> majordomo@www.atoznet.com       majordomo
> 
> this is the entire 'hosts' file:
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 63.230.201.225  ns1.atoznet.com         # main interface
> 
> running config-test reports no problems, here are what seem
> to be the most interesting lines:
>    FQDN=ns1.atoznet.com
>    LOGNAME=admin
>    USER=admin
> --------------------- euid/egid checks ---------------------
>    effective user  = admin (uid 110)
>    effective group = daemon wheel disk adm sys daemon bin
> root (gid 2 10 6 4 3 )
> ---------------------- uid/gid checks ----------------------
>    real      user  = admin (uid 110)
>    real      group = daemon wheel disk adm sys daemon bin
> root (gid 2 10 6 4 3 )
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The owner of every file in /usr/local/majordomo is "admin",
> except "wrapper", which is owned by root.
> The permissions appear to be okay, most things are set to
> 755 except the ones that end in "cf" or "pl"  
> 
> The log file contains many entries like these:
> Nov 28 00:26:56 atoznet.com majordomo[4465] {Clayton McGow
> <mrwilder@ns1.atozne$
> Nov 28 01:15:40 atoznet.com majordomo[5389] {Clayton McGow
> <mrwilder@ns1.atozne$
> Nov 28 01:45:30 atoznet.com majordomo[5765] {Administrator
> <admin@ns1.atoznet.c$
> Nov 28 01:50:48 atoznet.com majordomo[5825] {Clayton McGow
> <mrwilder@ns1.atozne$
> Nov 28 01:50:55 atoznet.com majordomo[5833] {Clayton McGow
> <mrwilder@ns1.atozne$
> 
> Note that "mrwilder" is not a valid user at
> "ns1.atoznet.com", but he is a user at "atoznet.com". His
> commands (which were issued during a telnet session) failed
> with 550- mrwilder@ns1.atoznet.com user unknown... the
> Administrator issued commands the same commands during a
> telnet session that succeeded (presumably because the UID is
> the same), but "admin" is a valid user at "ns1.atoznet.com"
> and a valid email adress at both domains.
> 
> Dan Liston mentioned that my problems are probably more DNS
> and sendmail related than Majordomo itself. I believe this
> is true, and I notice specifically the fact that majordomo
> thinks it is at "ns1.atoznet.com" (63.230.201.225) but the
> mail server is at "atoznet.com" (63.230.201.226). As
> "atoznet.com" and "ns1.atoznet.com" are both fully qualified
> but seperate domains, I think this is probably related.
> 
> And, to top it all off, I've ran newaliases and rebooted a
> coupla' hundred times.
> 
> I'm sure there is enough information in this letter for some
> kid to hack in and bring the whole server to the ground, uh,
> is there anything that stands out as "obviously messed up"
> for one of you "wise men" or "wise women" out there?
> 
> -- 
> Clayton McGow
> mrwilder@uswest.net
> 




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