Re: renaming the 'nobody' account

["Brad 'GreyBear' Davis" <bdavis peoplepublish com>]

Why not use procmail or even a redirect in /etc/alias to /dev/null? If all
you care about is not filling the account's email bin up, this is easier to
do, and doesn't force you to futz with the account.

Brad 'GreyBear' Davis - CTO, PeoplePublish, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nate Waddoups <linuxlists whatever net>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 2:34 AM
Subject: renaming the 'nobody' account


>
> The "nobody" account on my system is receiving spam on a pretty regular
> basis now.  Before I rename "nobody" to something else and start bouncing
> mail to that address, is there anything I should consider?  Any software
> that might have that userid/email address hard coded?
>
> Thanks
>
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