From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 15:30:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5286C157B9 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00890; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:34:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:34:02 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: Tony Johnson Cc: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Charlie Root In-Reply-To: <5527D19B23BFD3118FBC00E0811068061DC3@piranha.showmaster.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can edit the root formal name in passwd. On the very first line, you should see: root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh Just change "Charlie &" to whatever you wish. *==============================================* *Gene Harris http://www.tetronsoftware.com* *FreeBSD Novice * *All ORBS.org SMTP connections are denied! * *==============================================* On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, 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