Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 04:14:53 -0600 From: "Adam" <adam@wiredrave.com> To: <founder.fang@philips.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: how to receive root mail by outlook express? Message-ID: <000501c1c109$ee415510$0101000a@homer> In-Reply-To: <OFE858EC0B.33218D96-ON48256B6F.001107A2@diamond.philips.com>
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You definitely don't want to enable being able to telnet directly to the
root account. You may want to look into ssh, (man ssh), but that's
another story.
What you can do, is login as a normal user, then su (man su) to root, if
you have elm or mutt installed you can then:
# elm -f /var/mail/root
or
# mutt -f /var/mail/root
If you want to get all of root (as well as any of the mail sent to the
daemons) sent to your regular user account (local or non local) edit
/etc/aliases, there will be a line (commented out most likely) that is
something like:
Root: some@address.com
If it's commented out it will have a # before it. Uncomment this line,
then put your email address there. If your account is local on the
system, then just put the username.
After this, save the file, and then run: newaliases (as root).
This will update sendmail's alias table and all mail sent to root will
now be forwarded to whatever address you specified.
Hope this help.
Adam
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:14 PM
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Subject: how to receive root mail by outlook express?
my friends:
i am running a freebsd 4.5 box, everyday the system send many mail
to root account. i can read this mail before my server console, but i
can't receive them in outlook express. for the normal account, it is ok
to use outlook express, i think this is
because of security setting, how can i change the setting, so that i can
use outlook express for root account?
i also can't telnet(from another pc)to the system using root
account, how can i change the setting to make the root account
telnetable?
Best regards
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