Am So, den 15.08.2004 schrieb Samuel Sieb um 9:20: > Not entirely misleading. Yes, you can send mail to root, but root may > not get it. :-) I've only been using postfix, not sendmail, so that is > why my answer may have appeared misleading. Here is a quote from the > postfix aliases file: > > # For various security reasons, postfix WILL NOT deliver mail as root, so > # ensure that the root alias is aliased to a HUMAN user, as otherwise > # mail may get delivered to the $default_privs user (nobody). Ok Samuel, this default setup of Postfix is new to me. Thanks for pointing this out. I will have to read the Postfix documentation to understand the "various security reasons". I just wonder why the write "deliver mail _as_ root" and not "deliver mail _to_ root". I will read about that as I am much more familiar with Sendmail. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2smp Serendipity 17:20:19 up 11 days, 10:48, load average: 0.03, 0.20, 0.22
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