Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 21:31, andre999 wrote:
If we send emails to root and they aren't noticed and removed, they
will accumulate and eventually occupy a lot of disk space.
One solution to that is to add the first user in the aliases file as the
recipient of mail to root. Or maybe prompt for who should receive mail to the
administrator.
On Debian, postfix ensures on install that someone receive root's mail. Maybe
even prompts for the username or email address. I don't quite remember how.
We would avoid this problem if
1) we remove root as the default destination.
It is now the default for every security level.
This means removing "MAIL_USER=root" from every
/etc/security/msec/level.* file.
and
2) ensure that msec sends no email if no address is entered, even if
sending is activated.
So root would have to be explicitly entered. And assume that an admin
would know what to expect if they enter root.
So we should check that no email is sent if sending is activated without
an email adresse -- I'll test that tonight. (I changed the settings -
just need to see what msec does.)
--
André
