Slightly OT - Exim / Apache

[Kai Schaetzl]

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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote on         Thu, 8 Dec 2005 
21:59:01 -0000:

> Over the last few weeks the number of attacks on forms hosted on our servers 
> has reached new levels 
> Unfortunately the user id for the mail is set to apache, which makes 
> tracking down the domain / user who has the vulnerable script very awkward

This is not a problem with CGI, so I assume you are talking about php scripts 
and mod_php? You can set a mail from address for each virtualhost for php which 
will replace the apache userid.

Kai

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