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font-family:Arial">On a couple of recently loaded servers including a RHEL6 I found that Sendmail is sending emails generated by root processes using my real user ID rather than
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font-family:Arial">These root processes were started from command line after I did “sudo su –“ to become root. The processes definitely show root as the user running them.
The sudo man page says that when one switches to another user both real and effective user ID are set to the new user which seems to be born out by the “id” command. However, if I run “who am i” and “whoami” I’m seeing my real user id (the one I was before
doing the sudo su) and effective ID. However, this is also true on my RHEL5 boxes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial">Did something change in Sendmail where it is detecting the underlying user somehow? On my RHEL5 boxes the email goes out just fine as root@ after a sudo su
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