From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 09:57:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25272 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:57:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25267 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:57:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA14351; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:54:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:54:34 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199811251754.JAA14351@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mgililland@global-av.com Subject: Re: Aliases In-Reply-To: <365C36F3.B4053003@global-av.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:57:23 -0600 >From: Matt Gililland >How do I create an alias for a user that the username has more than 8 >characters? >Example: mgililla=mgililland I don't see the problem. For example: # Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster Of course, that's followed by: postmaster: root in the case of the machine in question... but sendmail doesn't care about the length of what's on the right-hand side of the ":" (within reason, anyway). david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message