On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:19:57 -0400 Jason Gordon wrote: > If I have root access to a machine, what is the best way to set up > mailing lists without having to create user accounts for the lists. > For example, if I was to make a mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED], how can > > I do this without creating a system account called jhu and creating a > mailing list, grads, under that system account? To me doing so seems > like a security risk because then you have more passwords to remember > and more ways for an attacker to break into a system. > > Can anyone suggest a way to setup a bunch of mailing lists to be > managed by the root user, or even one regular system user as long as > the list email address doesnt need to be prefixed by username?
1. Create a subdomain, list.domain.tld 2. Create a single system account called "list" 3. Create an alias called "@list.domain.tld" pointing to user "list". 4. Now all you have to do is create lists in this system account, eg. list "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" you would run, as user list, "couriermlm create ...." and then create the related ~list/.courier-mylist-* files. 5. I have my lists setup this way, but I've gone a step further by writing a little python wrapper script, called from ~list/.courier-default, so it handles all the lists, and I don't need individual .courier files for each list. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
