Security question regarding root email

[Tim]

Florin Andrei:

>> Hmmm, interesting. I'll raise the question on the -dev list.

> An RFE has been opened against firstboot to let the operator choose an
> alias for root:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176767

Just looking at what's in there:

"It's probably best to let the operator enter an arbitrary email address
instead of redirecting root to another account on the same system, since
that account's email may or may not be read by a MUA"

For a lot of people, that'd require reconfiguring sendmail, and
registering a real domain name.  As they won't be able to post to any
real internet e-mail address *from* <root at localhost>, etc.

There'd need to be some warning regarding how to deal with such an
option (all that's involved).

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