I've never used checksecurity, but I assume any reports it creates will be sent to root. Assuming you have root aliased to a regular user account, that's where the reports will end up.
j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Srdic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 5:59 AM To: Stephen Gran; debian-security@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: configuring Checksecurity to email reports to root On January 12, 2002 02:28 pm, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Stefan Srdic: > > Hi, > > > > I was going through the Securing Debian HOW-TO and noticed the section > > on setuid check (4.11). I would like for the checksecurity script to > > email root of any changes to the system. Will this work if I have exim > > installed? > > > > Currently, exim forwards all mail from root to my day-to-day user. I > > would like to be able to read any information that this script would have > > for me through kmail :D > > > > Has anybody set this up? > > > > Stef > > I'm fairly sure this is handled by /etc/aliases for exim. I have > lines like: > postmaster: root > root: steve #Steve being my ordinary account, obviously > and it works great. I think this is part of eximconfig, although I > don't remember exactly. > HTH, > Steve You might have misunderstood me, my question was, will the checksecurity script that runs from cron e-mail it's report to root if I have exim installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
