Sendmail configuration

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "A" == A Sajjad Zaidi <sajjad@example.com> writes:

    A> Im trying to setup sendmail to act as an smtp server, but I
    A> dont want just anyone to be able to use it for relaying. Is
    A> there an option to authenticate the user based on the system
    A> password?

    A> Im using mailconf to configure it and sendmails version seems
    A> to be 8.9.3 (RH6.2).

Chris is your friend, listen _carefully_ to Chris.

BTW, "ssh -L" probably does what you want.  I recommend configuring
ssh with strong authorization, but you can use the system password
with some hope it won't end up in the "public-use password" database
at Exploits-R-Us that way.


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