On 02-Feb-2002 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm trying to help a friend (not on the list)who just installed Mandrake 8.1 >> and haven't succeeded in solving this. It's is probably a stupid question, >> but I've looked at all the relevant man pages and I'm obviously missing >> something. > > Is there an *important* reason that root should read the mail directly? > Consider the factthat security fixes were issued for both mutt and pine > recently. > > Is there a good reason why the mail is not forwarded to a certain local > user? > > See: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#root
Of course you're right that root should not be a **regular** user and should not be logged on to read mail. My question really arose because of the difference between my box and my friend's. I couldn't see why my root account got mail and his didn't since we both have MDK 8.1. After reading your answer and the FAQ you pointed to, it occured to me that there is a difference after all. My friend has a new MDK 8.1 box and mine was updated from 8.0. It seems that when I updated, I didn't update postfix so was running a much older version - I guess from before the security fix that won't allow mail to root. BTW - since both my friend and I have home machines only, I admit that despite all of the above, we both regularly log on as root and are not too worried about security issues. Please no flames - so far, in four years of running Linux, I only did serious damage once, and that was on an occaision when I probably would have had to log on as root anyway. //------------------------- Shlomo Solomon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Date: 03-Feb-2002 Time: 20:57:27 Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 8.1 machine //------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
