From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 15: 1:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (CPE-61-9-165-100.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.165.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E12137B71E for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.sergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2LN1CJ01491; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:01:14 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from mark.sergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200103212301.f2LN1CJ01491@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: lazy , Daniel Mester Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Charlie root? X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.2 On freebsd Date: 21 Mar 2001 18:01:10 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: <3AB8943D.1C7F939@daemons.aregreat.net> References: <3AB8943D.1C7F939@daemons.aregreat.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In fact I would like to go one further on this, why use root at all ? Install something simple such as sudo. In regards to charlie root the only time you should see mail from him is from cron jobs. Either use chfn or vipw to change this. Don't forget to setup a mail alias for root as well pointing to your own account. ie. edit /etc/mail/aliases and add an entry of root: yourloginaccount and then once saved & exited type newaliases this way you will receive all of roots mail. Cheers, Mark p.s. excuse the rambling & spelling I just woke up, haven't had coffee yet On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:45:01 -0500, lazy said: > Why do you even use your root account all the time? > That isn't too smart/safe a move. > It's really best if you use *your* account most of the time, > and only su(1) to root when you have to. > > Use adduser(8) and create yourself a user account, using > root all the time is not the best idea. > > Daniel Mester wrote: > > > > Hey, > > when i send mail from my FreeBSD 4.2 box with postfix on it i get it as > > from : root@hostname.domainname.com (Charlie Root) :) > > Where can i change it? > > Thanks, > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Daniel Mester > > Portal Tech. Manager > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message