From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 14:48:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365B516A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1FA43FD7 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hADMmbu21992; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:48:37 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com, "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:48:36 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311131448.37027.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: how to change the name of root? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:48:44 -0000 On Thursday 13 November 2003 02:41 pm, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > When I get admin emails from my remote boxes, or send messages from them, > they are from root or charlie root. How do I change this? > Did you try changing the name in the passwd files? Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html