What distribution are you using that doesn't allow you to reconfig hostname etc? The X authority problem might be a group thing i.e. there may be an X group that you need to be added to... ? Anybody? Using SuSE and YaST for a year made my (already limited) brain, mushy. On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:39:24PM -0500, David Christian wrote: > Well, okay, it *sort* of works, now; it seems mn-linux.org is not as picky as some other places. If I try to send through sourceforge to myself, it ferrets out the fact that I'm from localhost at localdomain. > > (yes, I know, even behind a firewall where no one can see I could be more creative, but changing hostnames after the computer is initialized is a pain, and I haven't figured out how to make X work once I've changed host names, since I then I have authority problems.) > > I'm trying using the sendmail.mc features MASQUERADE_AS and FEATURE('masquerade_envelope') but neither of these seem to do a thing. > Any more advice? > > Thanks, > Dave