On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 15:20 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > One thing I can think of: There are e-mails sent to root > > from various subsystems to notify of events. > > But you don't need to have the userid to route mail successfully. See > /etc/aliases: > > ... > # Person who should get root's mail > #root: marc > > Just uncomment the second line above and put the forwarding address in > place of "marc", save, run newaliases, and mail forwarding works, even if > there is no root user. > > I'm not claiming everything works with no root, but mail forwarding does. If I am understanding correctly though, there are many aliases with root on the right side, and the entries on the right must be a valid username or address. I think it may work after performing the change you show above, but that would be a *mandatory* condition if the root user name did not exist.
