On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Robert McNaught wrote:
>
> Thanks for the mail guys, I will continue with your advice.
>
> One thing is that I cannot find /etc/master.passwd - I am using
> CentOS, does anyone know if this is a distribution specific file?
>
I think you're likely using:
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
try `man 5 passwd` for more info.
>
>
> Robert
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:
> > Robert McNaught wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am a newbie at exim, tried googling and doing rewrite rules to fix
> >> this, cant seem to figure this one out myself.
> >>
> >> I am having 2 "Received:" headers (the initial linux user then the IP
> >> of the exim server) appearing in the top of my email (I use evolution
> >> and click show all headers). One of them is showing the linux user
> >> which initiated the mail (this is a proprietary name and I wish to
> >> remove it or change it).
> >
> > The problem of showing a 'linux user' sensitive ID (login name, one
> > supposes) can be made to go away entirely if you switch to virtual
> > users. Even 'postaster@' is in the virtual category on our boxes.
> >
> > There is no need to have any 'shell account' or even 'nologin' or daemon
> > identities used in mail *unless8 they are gong to receive into old-style
> > mboxen. better to use virtyal user ID and POP or IMAP.
> >
> > But *even so* - passing an editor over /etc/master.passwd and changing
> > the 'real name' portion to NOT include the '&' that picks up the login
> > name may solve at least part of your problem faster.
> >
> > Couple that with relaying inbound to where you want it via entries in
> > /etc/aliases, and you may have all you need w/o re-writing anything -
> > even for daemon runners.
> >
> > 'KISS'
> >
> > Bill Hacker
> >
> >
> > > I successfully managed to change the
> >> addresses in the envelope-from: and Return-path: headers using
> >> rewriting. However, I cannot see a fix for changing the linux user.
> >> I have a thought that it might be necessary to remove the headers
> >> called Received: from the mail completely, but I do not know if this
> >> makes it tough to get round spam blockers.
> >>
> >> Ideally, what I want to do is to change this line in the mail header:
> >>
> >> Received: from bob by myhost.mydomain.com with local (Exim
> >> 4.63)(envelope-from............
> >>
> >> Any idea how I can get rid of bob or change bob to sally?
> >>
> >> Rewrites only appear to work for real email addresses and not the
> >> linux user initiating the mail - I did try putting in
> >>
> >> bob sally EFTBcfhrst in exim.conf which I thought might have rewrote it.
> >>
> >> Can anyone point me in the right direction or tell me if its possible?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >
> >
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