From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 15:40:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.ibroadcast.net (ns1.ibroadcast.net [216.145.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8186F15898 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:40:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from majid@ibroadcast.com) Received: from Debug (mail.ibroadcast.net [216.145.30.4]) by ns1.ibroadcast.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA97456; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:38:16 -0800 (PST) X-Intended-For: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <200001272338.PAA97456@ns1.ibroadcast.net> To: Gene Harris , Tony Johnson , "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" From: majid@ibroadcast.com Subject: Re: Charlie Root Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:38:16 GMT X-Mailer: Endymion MailMan Standard Edition v3.0.19 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That would not take care of it. You nees to use vipw so the password database file gets updated accordingly. Majid Almassari, MSEE, MCP. Systems Administrator. iBroadcast, Inc. http://www.ibroadcast.com > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message