how to change the root user's name on FreeBSD 6.1 running postfix

Mikhail Goriachev mikhailg at webanoide.org
Sun Aug 20 09:12:05 UTC 2006


Paul Hamilton wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am running postfix on FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.1 servers.
>  
> In FreeBSD 4.11, you can run 'chsh root'  and edit the name to what you
> want.  However, on my FreeBSD 6.1 servers, I still receive email addressed
> from 'root unix'.   I would like to be able to differentiate the root mail
> according to server the mail came from  :-)
>  
> Any idea's?


Hi,


You're after: chpass(1)


Cheers,
Mikhail.

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