Hallo Jean-Louis

 

I have applied your patch. Now it works very well. Thanke you very much!

 

With best thanks

Thomas Steiger

 

On 1/11/07, Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:

amanda remove most the environment variable for security reason.
mailx require the HOME environment variable to find the user .mailrc file
Could you try the attached patch.

Do someone know if the HOME environment variable can be used to break
suid program?

Jean-Louis

Thomas Steiger wrote:
>
> I have a question about sending mails in amanda. For example the
> 'amcheck -m <config>' command sends a mail if any errors are detected.
> The log file amcheck.<datestampe>.debug shows me the following content:
>    ...
>    amcheck: spawning /usr/bin/Mail in pipeline
>    amcheck: argument list: /usr/bin/Mail -s "<config> AMANDA PROBLEM:
> FIX BEFORE RUN, IF POSSIBLE" xyz@domain <mailto:xyz@domain> .
>
> I assume that amcheck sends the mail under the user amanda (as
> configured by compilation) but it seems that the personal config file
> for the MAILER (~/.mailrc) will not be used to send the mail. In the
> sendmail log i can find the following error:
>    ruleset=trust_auth, arg1= amanda@domain <mailto:arg1=amanda@domain>,
> relay=localhost [127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>], reject=550 5.7.1
> <amanda@domain <mailto:amanda@domain>>... not    authenticated
>
> But if i use the following command on the shell to send a mail (under
> the user amanda):
> /usr/bin/Mail -s "<config> AMANDA PROBLEM: FIX BEFORE RUN, IF
> POSSIBLE" xyz@domain <mailto:xyz@domain>
> everything goes fine.
>
> The contents of the file .mailrc is:
>    set smtp=smtp://localhost
>    set smtp-auth=login
>    set smtp-auth-user=userxyz
>    set smtp-auth-password=**************
>
>
> Does anybody know how i can configure amanda so that the mailer uses
> the smtp auth configuration?
>