From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 17 21: 3: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flute.daconcepts.dyndns.org (wks-166-131-83.kscable.com [24.166.131.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D1F37B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:02:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (natedac@localhost) by flute.daconcepts.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1I52qY62453; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:02:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from natedac@kscable.com) X-Authentication-Warning: flute.daconcepts.dyndns.org: natedac owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:02:50 -0600 (CST) From: Nate Dannenberg X-Sender: natedac@flute.daconcepts.dyndns.org To: System Admin Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hi In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, System Admin wrote: > how do I subscribe to this thing? Start by not doing sending email anymore as root (the address I am replying to is the address that shows as your "From" address, to all members of the list, including would-be crackers. Doing anything Internet related as root isn't a very good idea. Create yourself a user account (man adduser) and use this from now on for all of your daily activities. Don't use root for anything but system administration and testing. Anyways, try sending email (as a user, not root!) to: majordomo@FreeBSD.org ...with: subscribe freebsd-security ...in the body of the message. It will send back a confirmation notice with some security codes that you much Email back to majordomo with. Just follow the directions. See you on the list. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message Just fyi - All posts that go through the lists get a footer like this attached, so at least you know your message went to everyone in the list. -- ___________________________________ _____ _____ | _///@@@| | | natedac@kscable.com /'//ZZ@@|____ | | |'''/ |'/@7 | | http://home.kscable.com/natedac |`'| `~~' | | | `| .--. | | C64/C128 - What's *YOUR* hobby? | `\____|___\ | | \_ | | |___________________________________ \_____| _____| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message