Sendmail: "exposed" root, why?

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  From the sendmail documentation:
> 
> "There are always users that need to be "exposed" -- that is,
> their  internal site name should be displayed instead of the
> masquerade name. Root is an example (which has been
> "exposed" by default prior to 8.10)."
> 
> Is there actually any reason why root needs to be "exposed"?
> 
> Root is set to an external address in aliases and it really
> needs to be masqueraded in order to for it to get delivered,
> but would that cause problems with anything?
> 
> How do you stop sendmail from doing this, I don't see any
> directive to NOT expose root, only options to expose other
> addresses as well.. Perhaps there is a better way to send
> system mailed logs to an external address that doesn't send
> them from root?
> 
> Thanks for any info!
There is no directive, but you can edit the resultant .cf file
and remove the line
C{E}root
or root from that line if more than one user.

Be warned, you _will_ break /etc/crontab and periodic scripts mail delivery.

The reason it needs to be exposed is probably these scripts because 
other wise the from address for daily security scripts will be
root@<masquerade> rather than root at machine.domain.  Now, it so happens 
that most of these e-mails have the machine name in the subject or what not.



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