From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 3 12:10:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from moebius2.Space.Net (moebius2.Space.Net [195.30.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A3B815104 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:10:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maex@Space.Net) Received: (qmail 10119 invoked by uid 1013); 3 Aug 1999 19:09:53 -0000 Message-ID: <19990803210953.E17970@space.net> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:09:53 +0200 From: Markus Stumpf To: Alex Zepeda , Mike Hoskins Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Alex Zepeda on Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 04:08:00AM -0700 Organization: SpaceNet GmbH, Muenchen, Germany Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would recommend qmail (http://www.qmail.org/). It has a VERY modular structure, where you e.g. can easily substitue the "checkpassword" module with a e.g. perl script doing the lookups. Nothing else needs to be patched/changed and the described scenario can be accomplished with standard qmail features. We're running kind of such a setup for about 2 years and are very happy. There are patches+docs for a complete qmail+mysql integration at http://www.softagency.co.jp/mysql/qmail.en.html There are patches+docs for a complete qmail+ldap integration at http://www.nrg4u.com/ LDAP is not that messy :-) LDAP is designed with a lot of read accesses in mind and will eventually not scale well with a lot of write (change) accesses. On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 04:08:00AM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: > I just don't see any justification in hacking away at all of your software > to bypass the passwd database. What is gained? If you have 100000+ users you'll run out of UIDs (see recent thread). Also you'll have to run the script to allow users to change passwords as "root", which you probably will NOT want to do (same for adding/ deleting/changing users) Also with 30000+ (maybe even with 10000+) users each rebuild of the passwd database will become SLOW and you have to take care about locking and such ... been there, tried it, didn't like it. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research & Development | mailto:maex-sig@Space.Net | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message