Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:13:53 GMT From: majid@ibroadcast.com To: jmutter@ds.net, Tony Johnson <tony@showmaster.com>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Charlie Root Message-ID: <200001280013.QAA32187@ns1.ibroadcast.net>
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That will not do it. editing /etc/passwd alone will not build your password database file. Try it, it will not work. you need to use vipw for it to rebuild your database. Now why an application runs as root is the question? because it is obviously using the root account for mailing. Majid Almassari Systems Administrator. iBroadcast, Inc. http://www.ibroadcast.com > You can always edit the password file and change his name, however I > have to wonder why your script is mailing/running as root? Is it > absolutely necessary? It just sounds dangerous to me... > > Tony Johnson wrote: > > > > Is there a way to change the name of root emails from Charlie Root to > > something else. I have a script that emails as root and Charlie Root means > > nothing to my users. I wanted to change that to the something meaningful to > > my users > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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