Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Support your local PostMaster (was Re: Standard site aliases . . .)
Message-ID: <4125@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 17:41:06 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>> Some operating systems don't call their idea of a superuser "root".
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>>And on some of them, we never log into the "SYSTEM" account anyway ...
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>Not logging in a root is an excellent idea,

Especially if the system doesn't *HAVE* an account named "root", as I
suspect many (most?  all?) VMS systems don't.  That's the whole point of
many of the other comments in this thread....

>but one hopes that there is an alias of 'root' to 'postmaster'.

I assume you mean "one hopes there is an alias of 'SYSTEM' to
'postmaster'," as there's probably no "root" account on that system....