Re: Unknown User/Alias 'Marc'

["Arthur Othieno" <a_othieno@hotmail.com>]

Thank you all for your time and comprehensive responses. I just wanted to 
get that cleared up though. Looks like i forgot to attach the said file, but 
that doesn't seem important now anyway! Thanks again.

Happy hacking...

Arthur


>At 08:03 PM 8/16/02 +0100, Arthur Othieno wrote:
>>Hello all. After a few weeks of lurking on the list I can finally turn to
>>you
>>for some quick advice. The other night as I was looking through my 
>>sendmail
>>aliases file (/etc/aliases), I noticed a perculiar line at the end of it
>>that read:
>>
>>--begin--
>># Person who should get root's mail
>>#root:                        marc
>>--end--
>>
>>All I want to know is who is this user/alias marc?
>[rest deleted]
>
>A (non-existant) example of a user. The line begins with a #, making it a 
>comment line, not a functioning line.
>
>
>>A quick look at the
>>/etc/passwd, shadow, group, gshadow... didn't turn up any results, which
>>puzzles me. Funny thing is I get mail as root fine! I am running RedHat 
>>7.3
>>(Valhalla), Sendmail 8.11.6. The only ports open on the machine are 25/tcp
>>(Sendmail) and 6000/tcp (X11). No UDP ports open. And I don't connect to 
>>the
>>internet with this machine, it's just a dummy machine that sits there
>>waiting
>>for all things experimentation that may come my way ;-) I have attached a
>>copy of the /etc/aliases file for anyone to look at just in case.
>
>I didn't see an attachment. Anyway, attaching small files like this is one 
>is a bad idea -- if we need to see them, it's easier (less work for most of 
>us) if you put them in the body of your message.
>
>>Thank you
>>for your time...
>
>
>
>




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