Re: [K12OSN] Adminstration question
Jim Wildman (jim@rossberry.com)
Thu, 1 May 2003 09:23:47 -0400 (EDT)
If you are using a graphical login for root, then
1) open a console window
2) ssh -X aaa@localhost
3) start your email client
If you are using a text login
1) open a new virtual terminal and login as that user
2) read your email.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim@rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com
On 1 May 2003, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> I am referring a single (one) POP3 account. I am the Administrator. It
> is not be a good practice to use ROOT to work including
> sending/receiving mails, therefore I create a USER account for myself on
> the OS, say, "AAA" for daily routine. Now the problem is occasionally
> when I do administrating work as ROOT I need to refer to data in mails
> (either incoming or outgoing). In such case I have to re-login as USER
> to read it. It is not convenient. Of course I can leave all incoming
> mails on ISP server but they will accumulate. OR I can save the mails
> as file and keep them on /tmp folder but this arrangement just increases
> workload.
>
> To overcome the forgoing question I am trying to find a solution which
> allows the Administrator to read a particular USER's mail boxes while
> login as ROOT. I am not considering changing the setup from time to
> time.
>
> Thanks
>
> B.Regards
> Stephen
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 05:03, Steve Wright wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 21:18, Stephen Liu wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is when I login as administrator and have to referring to a
> > > particular email already downloaded in an user account I have to
> > > re-login as user to get that email. Is there a solution avoiding
> > > switching re-login problem so that I can get the download email in
> > > user's account while I login as administrator?
> >
> > Yes. This is easy.
> >
> > In a Business, many people need to read incoming mail. Sometimes the
> > mail comes in from different places, like 2 or more POP3 accounts.
> >
> > I recently set up an office and we did it like this ;
> >
> > There are two parts - getting the incoming mail onto your system, and
> > distributing it to your users.
> >
> > Create a user account for each subject, like "support" "install" or
> > whatever you think.
> >
> > Create a /home//.fetchmailrc with two entries this ;
> >
> > poll "pop3.server.com" protocol pop3 username "user" password "pass"
> > mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s"
> >
> > Insert servername, username, and password relevant to your ISP.
> > You may insert more 'poll' commands if you like
> >
> > Now as root, start `fetchmail` in daemon mode for this user, like this ;
> >
> > /bin/su -c "fetchmail -d 120"
> >
> > Now to allow many users inside your firewall access to this email,
> > simply install an IMAP server (no configuration required) and configure
> > IMAP clients on all the workstations that require access.
> >
> > All users can read all incoming mail, and the mail stays on the server.
> >
> >
> > HTH,
> > Steve
>
>
>
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