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 -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
