From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 29 13:06:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11944 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:06:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wind.freenet.am ([194.151.101.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11916 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:06:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from casper@acc.am) Received: from lemming.acc.am (acc.freenet.am [194.151.101.251]) by wind.freenet.am (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA11833; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:05:42 +0400 (GMT) Received: from localhost (casper@localhost) by lemming.acc.am (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA28888; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:28:05 +0400 (AMT) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:28:05 +0400 (AMT) From: Casper To: Mark Conway Wirt cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service providing for virtual users In-Reply-To: <19990129153028.F25277@intrepid.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanx , so if there are no ready solutions , i think iu can find some spare time to (re)write/patch ftpd/apache/sendmail/cucipop to use SQL server. In conjuction with radiusd it will give me ability to distribute services over distinct servers - mail/pop3 on one machine and ftp/www on other ..... On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > AFAIK, there isn't an integrated way of doing what you want to do. > > Mail is fairly easy. Qmail supports the concept of a virtual user, > provided that you use a POP client that understands the the virtual user > structure -- see www.qmail.org for more information. > > WWW/FTP is more problematical. In reality, a web server doesn't care > about user ID's (provided your not using "~" paths), the real rub > is getting the pages uploaded. There are a few options, and all of them > have weaknesses. > > First, if you use wu-ftp, you can create ftp accounts of type guest. > Now, if you do this, you *will* have user accounts on the system, but > these can be chrooted and pointed to a non-loggable shell (which still > must be in /etc/shells), but it will limit the user's access to your > disk. They won't be able to log in, and in FTP transactions they will > only have access to the portion of the disk (though the chroot) that > you define. > > Another (horrible) option is to use the FrontPage extensions. FrontPage > can be set up to use virtual users, but this forces the user to use FP, > with is a Bad Idea (tm). :) > > Maybe someone on the list knows of other options for the uploading of > pages. People are working on standards-based methods for uploading > pages via http, but I don't think they are ready for prime time. Once > they are, there's nothing preventing people from creating virtual-user > aware clients.... > > --Mark > -- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message