Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:28:05 +0400 (AMT) From: Casper <casper@acc.am> To: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Service providing for virtual users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.04.9901300124280.28822-100000@lemming.acc.am> In-Reply-To: <19990129153028.F25277@intrepid.net>
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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
> --
>
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