From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 15:58:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4163214C03 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:58:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmutter@ds.net) Received: from ds.net (i1p90.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.90]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19465; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:58:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3890DB8C.EAC47E98@ds.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:58:04 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Johnson Cc: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Charlie Root References: <5527D19B23BFD3118FBC00E0811068061DC3@piranha.showmaster.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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