Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Support your local PostMaster (was Re: Standard site aliases . . .) Message-ID: <4128@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 27 Sep 90 20:57:48 GMT References: <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com> <7999@gollum.twg.com> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu In article <7999@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: >In article <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com> jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes: >>In article , bob@MorningStar.Com >>(Bob Sutterfield) writes: >>> 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 (...) >If I were trying to reach your system administrator, and had no idea >who that was, I'd try various things like "root" and "sysadm". I wouldn't >necessarily try "postmaster" .. Neither 'root', nor 'system', nor any other superuser-type ID will get you anything but a bounce-o-gram on the MVS system I'm putting on the Internet... but 'postmaster' will work every time. Some systems don't have any concept of 'system administrator'. Don't assume that any machine on the Internet has an address that 1) isn't in the RFCs as a standard user name, and 2) wasn't given to you by a user on that system. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +--------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_