Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:29 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Actually, working by default for things like smartctl is also really
> important (I'd like to know if my HD is about to go belly-up, thank
> you!), but at least we have the excuse that smartctl never worked nicely
> to begin with.
But see, it doesn't "work by default". By default (with sendmail) mail
is just dropped in /var/spool/mail/root. The user is given no hint,
documentation, or otherwise notification that they may want to configure
some email client to subscribe to this, which is quite difficult as a
normal user to subscribed to /var/spool/mail/root . Things certainly
don't "work by default".
It isn't so much that things don't work by default as that you are
discouraging/preventing anyone from logging in as root without fixing
everything that needs to change if they don't.
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Les Mikesell
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