Re: [SM-USERS] Re: root unable to login

[Erin S. <si...@ha...>]

> On Friday 30 August 2002 15:28, Will Yardley wrote:
>> Adam Cormany wrote:
>> > No, I agree as most would that remote root access
>> > isn't good, but I was hoping there would be a way I
>> > could check roots mail through Squirrelmail. I'll just
>> > redirect the mail I want to read to another user.
>
> Read the comments in /etc/aliases.  You should never have e-mail for
root left
> in root's account.  You should never read e-mail as root, nor send it as
> root.  Re-direct all of root's mail to a normal user account.
>
> --
>
> Freddie
> fc...@bi...

This may sound silly.. =)

anyway, I wanted root's mail to go to root (so I wouldn't have to look at
it unless and until I wanted too.. ) and fortunately, I set up my mail to
be pure virtual, meaning my mail accounts have absolutely no relation to
login accounts. And that's kinda nice, because that way, if someone does
accidently type in their password as the login, the most anyone gets is a
chance to send some email. They can't do anything to my system with
that..

SO.

my mail goes to root. and root can log in to check it - but it only works
because it's a virtual user named root whose login information lives in a
MySQL database shared between Courier-IMAP and Postfix, and whose user id
is effectively NOBODY.

Just an alternate approach for you, should you want to continue having
root mail go to root (sort of)... ;)

Erin
(sizzle)

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