Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:41:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org> To: aklemm@hightek.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail virtusertable, do I need cw file as well ? Is NIS ok ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980227073223.12197A-100000@uranus.planet-three.com> In-Reply-To: <19980227080719.24948@klemm.gtn.com>
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On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Andreas Klemm wrote: > Does sendmail still need a sendmail.cw file, if I'm using the > virtuser table ? Yes it does. The real point of virtuser as far as I'm concerned, is to make it easy to have, say - scot@poptart.org and scot@planet-three.com go to different mail-drops on the same machine. I personally have a seperat virtuser file for each mail domain I hold, say: virtuser-poptart: scot@poptart.org scot virtuser-planet: scot@planet-three.com s2 and then I have a newaliases shell script that builds a large virtuser from these smaller ones. Just easier to manage that way. The annoying thing though, is that the RHS of the alias has to be a single address - you can't specify multiple accounts as you would with /etc/aliases. And generics is a good idea if either: 1. Your users send mail from a shall account - sendmail maps their usernames to email address. 2. Your users use something like Eudora, which doesn't discriminate between POP-account and E-mailaddress... Eudora sets From lines to the pop-account address. Of course this won't work if they use someone else's SMTP server. > The point is, I'm not sure if I can safely use NIS to distribute > the user accounts between several machines. And creating/managing > the passwd file on several machines looks odd ... Don't be put off by Kerberos... I was surprised how easy it really is to set up. Yours Scot. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)1344 899401 PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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