Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:37:04 -0500 From: Robert Hough <rch@solveinteractive.com> To: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Admin Scripting Message-ID: <20010226103704.A9502@solveinteractive.com> In-Reply-To: <NKEKILAJANMPNGDPLAAIAELPCMAA.jbumsted@evertek.net>; from jbumsted@evertek.net on Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:19:03 -0600 References: <NKEKILAJANMPNGDPLAAIAELPCMAA.jbumsted@evertek.net>
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2001, Jamie Bumsted wrote: > > I am working on a shell script that will create a user account and > automagically send a "welcome" email to the new account. Is there something you want to do that adduser can't do for you? The last time I used adduser, it gives you this option from the get go. ---> man adduser > My only issue is that the email shows a From line of Charlie Root. You can change the name of the root account using vipw. ---> man vipw > Aside from running the script as someone other than root, does anyone > know how I can change this? If memory serves me, you can use sendmail -F to set the full name of the sender, but it's been awhile. This can be done with sendmail, though I'm not sure about qmail or postfix. I would imagine you could do it with those as well though. ---> man sendmail -- Robert Hough (rch@solveinteractive.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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