On 1 May 2003, Stephen Liu wrote: > I am the Administrator. It is not be a good practice to use ROOT to work > including sending/receiving mails, therefore I create a USER account for > myself on the OS, say, "AAA" for daily routine. Now the problem is > occasionally when I do administrating work as ROOT I need to refer to > data in mails (either incoming or outgoing). In such case I have to > re-login as USER to read it. It is not convenient. Of course I can > leave all incoming mails on ISP server but they will accumulate. OR I > can save the mails as file and keep them on /tmp folder but this > arrangement just increases workload. > > To overcome the forgoing question I am trying to find a solution which > allows the Administrator to read a particular USER's mail boxes while > login as ROOT. I am not considering changing the setup from time to > time. $ sudo su - USER -c pine (or whatever mail client you prefer) -- Paradise; can it be all I heard it was? I close my eyes and maybe I'm already there. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
