Re: /etc/aliases
From: Stuart Sears (stuart_at_sjsears.com)
Date: 07/30/04
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To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:39:27 +0100
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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