Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:40:16 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com> To: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org>, 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: <19980227094016.02243@hightek.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980227073223.12197A-100000@uranus.planet-three.com>; from Scot Elliott on Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 07:41:57AM %2B0000 References: <19980227080719.24948@klemm.gtn.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980227073223.12197A-100000@uranus.planet-three.com>
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On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 07:41:57AM +0000, Scot Elliott wrote: > 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. Thanks for confirmation. > 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. Aah, good to know ;-) Ok, but I think it's sufficient this way. > And generics is a good idea if either: 1. Your users send mail from a > shall account - sendmail maps their usernames to email address. You mean the users from a virtual domain, who have a shell account... Otherwise they would get the domain name of the server where they are logged in... So they get the correct domain in their From: ... > 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. I don't see the point here, sorry. Example please (I got to get a cup of coffie...) > > 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. But I think I will need real user accounts for people on such a thing like a pop server. How would I get it managed with kerberos ??? I think kerberos only does authorization in a secure manner. Here I surely need some additional things for a pop / ftp account, or ??? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com> <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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