From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 13: 5:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from piranha.showmaster.com (piranha.showmaster.com [207.204.83.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6CA14E5A for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tony@showmaster.com) Received: by piranha.showmaster.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1461.28) id ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:03:02 -0600 Message-ID: <5527D19B23BFD3118FBC00E0811068061DC9@piranha.showmaster.com> From: Tony Johnson To: "'jmutter@ds.net'" , Tony Johnson Cc: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Charlie Root Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:03:00 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1461.28) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is a script that does a find under /home for new files on an ftp server and emails the results. It is running as root to aviod permission problems . > -----Original Message----- > From: James A. Mutter [SMTP:jmutter@ds.net] > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 5:58 PM > To: Tony Johnson > Cc: Freebsd-Questions (E-mail) > Subject: Re: Charlie Root > > > 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