Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 11:42:06 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with the web pages of users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911161129130.20756-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911161346450.19861-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > We decided to have different machines for mail server > and web server. > > Our problem is, when we have our web pages in the other > machine and accounts in the other machine how can we > still use www.ourweb.com/~username type addresses? > > I hope my english was clear enough. If not I may try to > rewrite my problem. Sounds like you need to have accounts on both machines and sync the passwords. I'd recommend pushing the user portion of the password file from one to the other and completely avoiding NIS. The account on the mail server would allow for the MTA (sendmail/qmail/etc...) to deliver and POP or IMAP to allow the user to fetch email. The account on the web server would allow the www.../~user for viewing and FTP to let the user update the web pages. You could push the whole password file over, but I prefer to keep admin accounts static per machine in case an update fails or someone finds a chink in the armor... If you have more than a hundred users or so, you *really* need to consider a package like BillMax (www.billmax.com) which will automate almost the entire ISP operation cleanly and efficiently - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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