On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:14:10PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Houghi,
>
> On Saturday 08 October 2005 19:51, houghi wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 07:28:16PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I seem to recall in earlier SuSE Linux installation / setup
> > > procedures you were offered a chance to redirect system
> > > administrator mail from root's account to that of another "regular"
> > > user (I certainly managed to get it to happen somehow in all my
> > > earlier installations). But I don't recall being offered that
> > > opportunity when I set up SuSE Linux 10.0 ("Eval") nor can I find
> > > out how to set it up now that I'm up and running.
> > >
> > > Can someone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > It is offered when you are asked to make your first user. The same
> > place where you are asked if you want automagic login or not.
>
> Yeah, that sounds like what I remember. For some reason I overlooked it
> this time.
>
>
> > I personaly still feel that these choices should be reversed, e.g.
> > default recieving of root mail and default NO auto login.
>
> I think I agree. I definitely don't want auto-login.
They are competing with Microsoft, they have to make it easy enough to use
that drooling idiots don't need to remember big scarey log ins and
passwords.
It's a happy Medium, Root doesn't log in by default, and making users log
in, makes them write all of it down and stick it on the monitor anyway.
It's a trade off, you secure a computer to the best of your know hows and a
user just knocks that down with a pasty.
> > Anywho, you can change that in /etc/aliases .
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Do *NOT* forget to run `newaliases` as root, otherwise it won't work.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> > houghi
>
>
> Randall Schulz
>
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