I think its fine on a properly configured system. Ive been using mandrake since 7.2 and check those reports each week to make sure people arnt tampering with my systems or doing stupid things. Of corse I modify all my servers to send their mail for root back to my desktop.
Requirements might be different in a home desktop environment. Maybe we need an option to ask if the user would like basic security reports and/or how often, and sent where? (all with sensible defaults). Or perhaps ask in expert mode, and default to off. The presumption being that experts know what it means and normal people probably wouldnt understand a word of it? Ant On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:55, David Walser wrote: > Hmm, well the concern wasn't who it's mailing to, but > the fact that it's mailing at all... > > --- Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > 2. In msec in 8.1, it mails nobody every night > > about world-writable files > > > and open ports. Since this isn't a log, it's not > > logrotated, and if you > > > don't check it, it grows out of control. 8.2's > > msec isn't still doing this > > > it? > > > > afaik it doesn't mail nobody but to the root > > account. You can change that > > by adding MAIL_USER=<email address> in > > /etc/security/msec/security.conf. > > -- > > Fred - May the source be with you > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > -- Systems Administrator Pracom Ltd. +61 8 82029074 -=- +61 402 100 671 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PRIVILEGED - PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the above contact details.
