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Is the info that's put into the mail headers a security risk?

Discussion in 'Security' started by damainman, Sep 19, 2004.

  1. damainman

    damainman Well-Known Member

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    Today while testing out some emails, i noticed that the users Cpanel account name is inserted into the headers.

    I sent a email from SquirrelMail on my server, to a aol account. When looking in the header i noticed this:

    Received: from CPANELACCOUNTNAME by server.mydomain.net with local (Exim 4.42)

    Wouldn't inserting the account name used to log into cpanel create a security risk, or is it not that serious?
     
    #1 damainman, Sep 19, 2004
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    Well it exposes the user name, so a cracker is one step closer to brute forcing on that account, but tracing spam is made much easier with this info.
     
    #2 elleryjh, Sep 19, 2004
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