This sounds exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks much !
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 9:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sendmail aliases
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A. Lewis, CNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 4:13 AM
Subject: Sendmail aliases
>Is there a way to automatically create an entry in /etc/aliases for
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whereby when a user
>is added to the system, the entry in /etc/aliases is automatically
>updated daily ?
First, copy this into a shell script called "createlist":
#!/bin/sh
awk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd | grep -v P | grep -vxFf
/usr/local/bin/exclude | sort >/etc/allusers
Sorry for the broken line, those last two lines should be one line in
your
script.
The "grep -v P" is probably not necessary on your location, it
eliminates
accounts with a capital "P" in the userid from the list.
/usr/local/bin/exclude should contain the names of accounts you want
excluded from the list, one per line. Any account in /etc/passwd that
you
don't want mail going to needs to be in this file.
Then, you add this to /etc/aliases:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: :include:/etc/allusers
Run newaliases after you add this. Set up a cron job to run createlist
every day.
Run createlist manually any time you add a new account and want it to
receive mail immediately, or any time you delete an account and want it
to
stop receiving mail immediately.
Any mail sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will automagically go to
everybody in /etc/allusers.
If you don't want your users to know the magic alias, then send the
messages
to yourself, and bcc: them to the alias.
It is case-sensitive, so if you want to avoid the possibility of people
"trolling" for it, make it eVeRyOnE or something like that, or even
better
make it something like "djlfseiroosiofioei". :-)
It won't do you much good, since I think /etc/aliases has to be
world-readable, but it'll keep outside folks from figuring it out.
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