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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:42:52 -0800
From:      John Beck <sendmail+jbeck@sendmail.org>
To:        John Beck <sendmail+jbeck@sendmail.org>
Cc:        Gregory Neil Shapiro <sendmail+gshapiro@sendmail.org>, admin@wholesalehosting.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, sendmail-questions@sendmail.org
Subject:   Re: I must be stupid 
Message-ID:  <199903111942.LAA21904@opal.eng.sun.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:39:44 PST." <199903111939.LAA21852@opal.eng.sun.com> 
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John> Create a directory, say /etc/mail/domains. In there, create a file
John> for each user. The files can be sym-links to files in the users's
John> directories if necessary. Each user owns his/her file. Then cat the
John> files together into /etc/mail/virtusertable (or whatever path you use),
John> and run makemap on that. I have a virtual hosting site that does exactly
John> this (with a cron job that checks hourly if any of the users' files
John> changed, and does the cat and makemap if so), and it works just fine.

Gregory> This could be dangerous. What is to stop user A from redirecting user
Gregory> B's domain?

John> Well, in our case, we know everyone involved, and there is mutual trust,
John> so no worries. But in general it's still easy to solve: simply:

John> % grep -iv foo.tld foo.txt

John> where foo.tld is the domain and foo.txt is the virtual user sub-table
John> for that domain. Then cat the output of the grep for each domain into
John> the master virtual user table before doing the makemap.

Doh!  Of course I meant the grep without the -v.  I was thinking of another
cron job which could do the grep -v and report bogosity, and mixed the two.


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