Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!crash!simpact!jeh From: jeh@dcs.simpact.com Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Support your local PostMaster (was Re: Standard site aliases . . .) Message-ID: <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com> Date: 26 Sep 90 06:47:28 GMT References: <5376@thebes.Thalatta.COM> <1990Sep25.120211.3951@news.clarkson.edu> <5624@munnari.oz.au> Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Lines: 20 In article , bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > In article <5624@munnari.oz.au> ianr@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Ian ROWLANDS) writes: > Anyway, what's wrong with mailing to root? > > Some operating systems don't call their idea of a superuser "root". And on some of them, we never log into the "SYSTEM" account anyway -- it is such an obvious target for penetration attempts that we routinely disable it for interactive logins. Funny thing, but the system startup procedure doesn't bother to read its mail. We already tell DECUS uucp sites to forward "postmaster" to a real person (probably the person reading the installation instructions). If there are other "standard aliases" we should be setting up, please let me know! --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA Chair, VMSnet [DECUS uucp] and Internals Working Groups, DECUS VAX Systems SIG Internet: jeh@dcs.simpact.com, or if that fails, jeh@crash.cts.com Uucp: ...{crash,scubed,decwrl}!simpact!jeh