On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:50:17AM +0100, Gilles Chehade wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:37:14AM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
> > On 02/04/14 00:27, Simon Drewitz wrote:
> > >Hi misc@,
> > >
> > >I have set up mail(1) so that it forwards mails such as the output of
> > >/etc/daily to my mail account and now I want to encrypt these mails
> > >using my public gpg-key. The best solution I have come up with is
> > >changing these two lines at the end of /etc/daily:
> > >
> > >- } 2>&1 | mail -s "`hostname` daily output" root
> > >+ } 2>&1 | gpg2 --encrypt -r <key-ID> --armor | mail -s "`hostname` daily 
> > >output" root
> > >
> > >...
> > >
> > >- [ -s $MAINOUT ] && mail -s "`hostname` daily insecurity output" root < 
> > >$MAINOUT
> > >+ [ -s $MAINOUT ] && gpg2 --encrypt -r <key-ID> --armor < $MAINOUT | mail 
> > >-s "`hostname` daily insecurity output" root
> > >
> > >While it perfectly does what I want, I consider it bad habit to change
> > >/etc/daily itself and would like to know if there is any preferred
> > >solution to this issue?
> > 
> > add it to ~root/.forward file?
> > 
> 
> or even better, add an alias for root to an unprivileged user and add it to
> that user's ~/.forward so that gpg2 doesn't get executed as root :-)
> 

Thank you! That's what I looked for.

> 
> -- 
> Gilles Chehade
> 
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