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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Support your local PostMaster (was Re: Standard site aliases . . .)
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.000125.13023@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 28 Sep 90 00:01:25 GMT
References: <5376@thebes.Thalatta.COM <1990Sep25.120211.3951@news.clarkson.edu> <5624@munnari.oz.au> <BOB.90Sep25132519@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com> <7999@gollum.twg.com>
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In article <BOB.90Sep25132519@volitans.MorningStar.Com>, bob@MorningStar.Com 
(Bob Sutterfield) writes:
> Some operating systems don't call their idea of a superuser "root".

In article <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com> jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes:
>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.  

Not logging in a root is an excellent idea, but one hopes that there
is an alias of 'root' to 'postmaster'.