On 2019-04-05 21:13, David Wright wrote:
From this and other posts of yours, you seem to feel very vulnerable when connected to anywhere outside your system, as if you're under a man-in-the-middle attack all the time.
Do I come across like that ?It is probably correct. I think it is because I don't understand all of this stuff. I understand bits here and there, yet it does seem increasingly difficult to know what exactly is going on.
A solution is for root to add lines like:
Cmnd_Alias EMAILQUEUED = /bin/ls -lR /var/spool/exim4/
ME MYHOSTS = (EMAIL) EMAILQUEUED
## who where = (as_whom) what
to a file like /etc/sudoers.d/foo so that you (defined as ME) can
run that specific command as Debian-exim (EMAIL) on given hosts.
Now, a bash function can be defined to handle all the typing for
you (as user):
my-q ()
{
[ -n "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage: $FUNCNAME
checks the outbound mail queue." 1>&2 && return 1;
ps -p $(pgrep exim4);
sudo -u Debian-exim ls -lR /var/spool/exim4/
}
$ my-q
thanks for that.
Cheers, David.
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