Security question regarding root email

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Mon Jan 2 03:14:56 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:39 +1030, Tim wrote:

> > 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.

If the hostname is properly configured then it shouldn't be an issue.

But anyway, the more flexible the configuration, the better. It's
probably best if the user can choose between forwarding to a local
account or forwarding to an arbitrary email address.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/




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