Re: Problem with aliases

At 04:21 AM Friday, 8/31/2007, Bob Vaughan wrote -=>
> > Ed Kasky wrote::
> >
> > > For security purposes (I think) you should add nobody to the end of this
> > > line:
> > > /usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test test-list,nobody
> >
> > I realize I'm digging up an old e-mail, but browsing the list
> > archives for a solution to problem I'm having, I came across
> > this post by Ed Kasky.
> >
> > I had changed my mailing list configurations a while ago
> > as there seems to be some smegheads out there who found out
> > the mailinglist owner and thusly kept on sending to a
> > restricted mailing list.
> >
> > Anyway, I changed it using Ed Kasky's method (adding the
> > nobody at the end) and noticed ever since then, the
> > root account has been inundated by mailinglist posts.
> > I checked the alias files and noticed that nobody
> > was aliased to root.
> >
> > Is this exactly suppose to happen?  If not, am I
> > doing something wrong?  I am using Sendmail w/
> > the latest version of Majordomo.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Edmund
> >
>
>alias nobody to /dev/null, and the problem will go away.

I had assumed that nobody was aliased to /dev/null as it is on my 
server.  Why else what it be called nobody ;-)

Ed

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