Re: Login Definitions

[Chris Maresca <ckm@crust.net>]

I think that doing this with aliases is the way to go.  If you are using
Postfix, you can actually deliver mail to local mailboxes without having
local user accounts, thus avoiding the whole login thing.  

And something like vm-pop3d
(http://www.reedmedia.net/software/virtualmail-pop3d/) will allow you to
let the retrieve their mail without having a login account as well...

In the process, you would most likely improve security as well.

Chris.

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Ben Goren wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:30:41AM -0300, Nicholas Anderson wrote:
> 
> > Hi List,
> >
> > i have an SMTP server running on OpenBSD (of course).
> 
> Of course, we all know which version it is, too....
> 
> > such as  nick.anderson@blabla.com, so we will  have more options
> > when creating login names.
> 
> That'll depend at least in part on which version of OpenBSD you're
> using. On 2.8, don't bother. Either  2.9 or 3.0 introduced support
> for long usernames, but I don't recall if that included periods or
> other characters.
> 
> At the  least, read  aliases (5). Sendmail  aliases may  make more
> sense  in your  installation than  users for  more than  just this
> problem.
> 
> b&
> 
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> Ben Goren
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