From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 11:59:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF2014DAE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 12CpeA-0007NM-00; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:59:35 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA13668; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:59:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:59:28 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Where is Charlie Root? To: tracker@worldy.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <388C9AA9.7A66@worldy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Jan-00 at 10:36, David Banning (tracker@worldy.com) wrote: > When I mail from root the sender name is Chalie Root. > But that is not my name! > I changed to my name in /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd > I also looked in /etc/sendmail.cf and /etc/aliases > I rebooted - can you tell me where this guy's name is stored? > > ALSO: > My sender address from root not shows as root@mymachine when > I want it to be myname@myinternetprovider.com > Can you tell me how to change it? You really shouldn't be using root for general-purpose work or e-mailing. You want to create a new, unprivileged, user under your own name for that - see the adding_user(8) man page. (man adding_user) Root is just too dangerous for general use. You can accidentally damage your system in any number of ways. The system is (pretty well) protected from unprivileged users. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message