Thanks, Clyde.

Next time, I will be a bit less likely to jump to such conclusions :-)

Sean

At 04:20 PM 2/14/00 +1000, you wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 11:24:46PM -0500, Sean Breheny wrote:
>>
>> "X-Authentication-Warning: garath.home: rwuest owned process doing -bs"
>
>This is a message from sendmail, the Unix MTA (Mail Transport Agent). The
>option -bs to sendmail does this:
>
>     -bs         Use the SMTP protocol as described in RFC821 on standard in-
>                 put and output.  This flag implies all the operations of the
>                 -ba flag that are compatible with SMTP.
>
>What it is telling you is that the user (rwuest) invoked sendmail. Usually
>sendmail is invoked by a (trusted) system daemon. Basically it is a
warning that the
>mail From address may be forged. It's a little pointless, since if you
contact
>sendmail (or any other MTA) via a TCP/IP socket, it has no way of determining
>the real username anyway.
>
>Cheers, Clyde
>
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