/etc/aliases

Thomas E. Dukes edukes at alltel.net
Mon Aug 2 14:36:46 UTC 2004


Yes, thanks.

I didn't notice, but it was commented out.

Sorry about the over-sight.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Snehangshu Karmakar
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:04 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Re: /etc/aliases
> 
>   
> Hello,
> 
> The entry root:marc must be commented, it is used to redirect 
> it to some other user.If needed you can add the entry and run 
> newaliases command to make the .db file.
> 
> Hope i made this clear to you.  
> 
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 Stuart Sears wrote :
> >On Friday 30 July 2004 20:40, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I was looking at my /etc/aliases files and noticed that I 
> have the entry:
> > >
> > > root:  marc
> >This should be commented out in the aliases file - it was only ever 
> >intended as an example of how to alias root's mail to an 
> unprivileged user.
> >Ideally you should have such an alias in place - it is 
> considered bad 
> >practice to log in as root just to read email.
> > >
> > > Is this correct?  I don't have a user "marc".  I am 
> getting mail for 
> > > "root", so what is this?  What should it be in a RedHat 
> 9.0 system?
> >just replace marc with the name of an unprivileged user that 
> you want 
> >to use for this purpose. You must run the 'newaliases' 
> command after doing this.
> >I would assume that if you are looking at the aliases file you may 
> >already have known this...
> >HTH
> >
> >Stuart
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