Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:29:38 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users? Message-ID: <37A30852.20E5A7AF@bellatlantic.net> References: <199907311359.RAA28820@shuttle.svib.ru>
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Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm going to implement a large mail-box, with several hundreds of mail-only > users. They should never access anything besides their POP3 mailboxes and > change password via (SSLed) web interface. > > So, I don't want to add all of them to /etc/passwd. > > I have a hack that requires to change libc to make getpwent access not only > /etc/master.passwd, but also some mySQL database, but it is hard-to-rebuild > and overall dirty hack. > > Any suggestions, anyone? Modify the POP daemon to use your mySQL database in addition to getpwent ? That seems to be the easiest way that should not break anything else. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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