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Peter Tamuzza <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:09:54 -0400
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The user is also a junior linux admin.

On 8/1/2012 2:42 PM, Paul Russell wrote:
> On 8/1/2012 2:09 PM, Nathan Brindle wrote:
>> It might be helpful to know how it fails.
>> However, LCMD on unix simply drops a .job file into LISTSERV's spool
>> containing the command, and LISTSERV picks it up as if it had been
>> emailed.  But it writes it from the user's logged-in address with the
>> hostname of the machine it's coming from, so if the user is logged
>> into  LISTSERV.SOMEUNI.EDU as "someuser", the command will come from
>> [log in to unmask]
>> If they're listed in the Owner= setting for their list as
>> [log in to unmask], the command will fail because
>> [log in to unmask] isn't a list owner.  This can be worked
>> around by making [log in to unmask] a quiet owner of the
>> list.
>>
>> That would be my first thought as to why she's having trouble.
>>
>
> I have to wonder why anyone other than the LISTSERV postmaster has
> login access on the LISTSERV server.
>

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