From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Feb 26 7:28:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B090537B491 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 07:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by thehousleys.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1QFSYA55957; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:28:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1QFSWv55949; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:28:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3A9A7620.40808010@thehousleys.net> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:28:32 -0500 From: James Housley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Bumsted Cc: FreeBSD-ISP@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Admin Scripting References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie Bumsted wrote: > > Hi, > > First let me give my disclaimer - I am new to BSD, if the following is a > stupid question I apologize for wasting your inbox space! > > I am working on a shell script that will create a user account and > automagically send a "welcome" email to the new account. My only issue is > that the email shows a From line of Charlie Root. This is fine for most > people, but I have quite a few customers who are....well you know. Aside > from running the script as someone other than root, does anyone know how I > can change this? > Is there a reason not to use the adduser script? Use vipw and change the RealName for root. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message