Sendmail: "exposed" root, why?

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 09/01/2008, at 5:26 AM, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:

> 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.

I guess I will just try not exposing root and see what happens..

I don't really see why the crontab and periodic mail would
get broken though? Other than it having the wrong host in
the From: field, the subject line would still say the correct
host..

Or will it break it in some other way?

Cheers,
J.