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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


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