On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Rigoberto de la Cruz wrote: > > > may be this is not the best place to ask, but I have asked other places > > and haven't received any help. I've been using linux for about a year and > > a half using only 2 different users, root and my rrigo. Afet getting a > > little faster connection, I want to try different things. First, I want to > > create a user that has very little privilages, so that a friend can > > connect to my computer using ssh. This way, he can upload and download > > files, but cannot do any su, etc. how do I this? also, how do I forward > > Are you sure this is really necessary?? If he does not have the passwd he can > try but no joy. Besides if he is supposed to be a "friend" why are you afraid > he is going to try to hack?? Having said all of this look at a "man bash" > and search for "RESTRICTED SHELL" > > > all of root's mail to my mail? Is there any way to create an email address > > If using sendmail the easiest way is to create a .forward file in /root > that contains the email address of the user you want the mail forwarded to. > If using postfix modify the root alias in /etc/postfix/aliases to poing to > the correct user. Do not forget to run postalias on the aliases file. usein your vavourite text editor as root go to /etc/aliases. Right near the bottom is a line similar to this. # Person who should get root's mail # root: marc uncomment the line and change marc to your user name then save it. Now on the command line type newaliases. All of roots mail will then go to your user name > > > with out creating a shell account (and also using squirrelmail)? I tried > > to search for some documentation in users adminitration, but didn't find > > anything. any pointers? and last thing is.. how do I make fetchmail run as > > a daemon? > > >From the fetchmail man page: > DAEMON MODE > The --daemon <interval> or -d <interval> option runs fetchmail in daemon mode. You > must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds. > > In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs forever, querying each > specified host and then sleeping for the given polling interval. > > Simply invoking > > fetchmail -d 900 > > will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your ~/.fetchmailrc file (except > those explicitly excluded with the `skip' verb) once every fifteen minutes. > > It is possible to set a polling interval in your ~/.fetchmailrc file by saying `set > daemon <interval>', where <interval> is an integer number of seconds. If you do this, > fetchmail will always start in daemon mode unless you override it with the command- > line option --daemon 0 or -d0. > > Only one daemon process is permitted per user; in daemon mode, fetchmail makes a per- > user lockfile to guarantee this. > > See man fetchmail for more info. You will have to remember that should you shutdown your box you will need to restart the deamon on startup. Probably better to do this through a cron job. -- Regards, Rob Unsworth Ipswich, Australia
