Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:03:00 -0600 From: Tony Johnson <tony@showmaster.com> To: "'jmutter@ds.net'" <jmutter@ds.net>, Tony Johnson <tony@showmaster.com> Cc: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Charlie Root Message-ID: <5527D19B23BFD3118FBC00E0811068061DC9@piranha.showmaster.com>
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It is a script that does a find under /home for new files on an ftp server and emails the results. It is running as root to aviod permission problems . > -----Original Message----- > From: James A. Mutter [SMTP:jmutter@ds.net] > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 5:58 PM > To: Tony Johnson > Cc: Freebsd-Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: Charlie Root > > > You can always edit the password file and change his name, however I > have to wonder why your script is mailing/running as root? Is it > absolutely necessary? It just sounds dangerous to me... > > Tony Johnson wrote: > > > > Is there a way to change the name of root emails from Charlie Root to > > something else. I have a script that emails as root and Charlie Root > means > > nothing to my users. I wanted to change that to the something > meaningful to > > my users > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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