hey…
when I am trying to set up a mail alias on our system’s mail server (generically called ‘rt-requests’), I am
having problems with sendmail in that it won’t allow me to set up an alias using ssh. I have generated
an ssh key on this machine and copied the key to the rt server (with an acct. for ‘rt’) …the ‘authorized_keys’ files has a command line in it for the rt-mailgate script with the appropriate attributes.
after sending mail to rt-requests@mymailserver I keep getting errors saying that sendmail isn’t
setup to handle requests from ssh (some message like that). I know there is some dir. that you
can copy an exec. into to make it work with sendmail, but this doesn’t seem to help with sendmail.
so how does one get sendmail and ssh to work together? I was doing this all as root, but maybe a diff’t
user id would work?
also, I have run newaliases after updating the sendmail aliases file.
please, if someone could advise, I would be very grateful.
thanks,
brigit.
Can you show us the alias you are using? It sounds like you are piping
email to an ssh command? I really doubt you need/want to do that if you
are.
As far as executables and sendmail, you can pub symlinks in /etc/smrsh to
make sendmail happy.On Thu, 31 May 2001, brigit schroeder wrote:
when I am trying to set up a mail alias on our system’s mail server (generically called ‘rt-requests’), I am
having problems with sendmail in that it won’t allow me to set up an alias using ssh. I have generated
an ssh key on this machine and copied the key to the rt server (with an acct. for ‘rt’) …the ‘authorized_keys’ files has a command line in it for the rt-mailgate script with the appropriate attributes.
after sending mail to rt-requests@mymailserver I keep getting errors saying that sendmail isn’t
setup to handle requests from ssh (some message like that). I know there is some dir. that you
can copy an exec. into to make it work with sendmail, but this doesn’t seem to help with sendmail.
so how does one get sendmail and ssh to work together? I was doing this all as root, but maybe a diff’t
user id would work?
also, I have run newaliases after updating the sendmail aliases file.
please, if someone could advise, I would be very grateful.
Dale Bewley - Bewley Internet Solutions Inc. http://bewley.net/
Can you show us the alias you are using? It sounds like you are piping
email to an ssh command? I really doubt you need/want to do that if you
are.
As far as executables and sendmail, you can pub symlinks in /etc/smrsh to
make sendmail happy.
Let’s see…the new alias that I put in the mailserver’s file was as
follows:
rt-requests: |“ssh -T -v -i /.ssh/rt rt@mymachine.foo.com”
is this enough info?
brigit.
thanks for your help.,
Can you show us the alias you are using? It sounds like you are piping
email to an ssh command? I really doubt you need/want to do that if you
are.
As far as executables and sendmail, you can pub symlinks in /etc/smrsh to
make sendmail happy.
Let’s see…the new alias that I put in the mailserver’s file was as
follows:
rt-requests: |“ssh -T -v -i /.ssh/rt rt@mymachine.foo.com”
I think you would be better off if you changed the alias on your mail
server to this:
rt-requests: re-requests@mymachine.foo.com
And then on mymachine.foo.com you added this alias:
rt-requests: “|/usr/local/rt/bin/rt-mailgate rt-requests correspond”
That will probably require you to put a symlink in /etc/smrsh on
mymachine.foo.com.
If the format of RT “2” mailgate aliases are different, I’m sorry. I’ve
not looked at it yet.
Dale Bewley - Bewley Internet Solutions Inc. http://bewley.net/