I think I remember reading that SME Server is only designed to support 500
users max. The problem you discovered may never have been addressed because
it was never designed to handle such a large user base.
Best Regards,
David Davis
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From: "Abe Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Devinfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Possible Bug: devinfo-usermanager
I believe I may have found a bug in the devinfo-usermanager. (Or more
likely, a limitation in apache) I'm using
devinfo-mitel-usermanager-pkg-0.0.1-6.noarch.rpm.
After adding approx. 1900 users, httpd-admin no longer loaded. It told
me the error occurred on line such and such of
/etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.conf, which turned out to be generated by
.../templates/etc/httpd/admin-conf/httpd.conf/90e-smithAccess30user. I
believe the error was caused because the "require user ...." line was
too long in the 2 user panel "<Directory>" sections.
After some experimentation, I figured out that apache will accept
multiple "require user..." lines in the same <Directory></Directory>
segment. (I couldn't find any Apache documentation on this, but it
works on my SME 5.5 machine.) So, I altered the 90e-smithAccess30user
file to count the number of users it processes. Once it reaches 500
users, it inserts a line break and begins a new "require user" line
within the same $require variable.
The file is listed below, I left my changes aligned to the left for
easier readability. I added 6 lines. A declaration of "$i", an "if"
statement within the original "while" loop, and a $i++.
I wanted to send this out to the group for consideration.
Thanks,
Abe
#------------------------------------------------------------
# e-smith-user panel
#------------------------------------------------------------
{
use esmith::db;
my %accounts;
tie %accounts, 'esmith::config', '/home/e-smith/accounts';
my %panelshash;
opendir (DIR, "/etc/e-smith/web/panels/user/cgi-bin")
|| die "Can't open /etc/e-smith/web/panels/user/cgi-bin
directory.\n";
my @files = sort (grep
(!/(^\.\.?$)|(^pleasewait$)|(^userpanel-[a-z][\-\_a-z0-9]*)/,
readdir(DIR)));
closedir (DIR);
my $i = 0;
my $key;
my $value;
my $require = "require user";
while (($key,$value) = each %accounts)
{
my ($type, %properties) = split (/\|/, $value, -1);
if ($type eq 'user')
{
if ($i == 500) {
$require .= " \n require user";
$i = 0;
}
$i++;
# Build the all-users require line:
$require .= " $key";
foreach $file (@files)
{
my $adminpanels = db_get_prop(\%accounts, $key,
'AdminPanels');
if ( defined $adminpanels )
{
my @adminpanels = split (/,/, $adminpanels, -1);
if (grep /^$file$/, @adminpanels)
{
# Build a files require line for each panel
$panelshash{$file} .= " $key"
}
}
}
}
}
# Select the newer header image if it's found:
my $imageName = -e '/etc/e-smith/web/common/server-manager.jpg' ?
'server-manager.jpg' : 'e-smith-manager.gif';
$OUT .= <<HERE;
<Directory \"/etc/e-smith/web/panels/user/html\" >
Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from $localAccess
AuthName "Mitel Networks SME User manager"
AuthType Basic
AuthExternal pwauth
$require
SetEnv IMGHDR_SRC \"/e-smith-common/$imageName\"
Satisfy all
</Directory>
<Directory \"/etc/e-smith/web/panels/user/cgi-bin\" >
Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from $localAccess
AuthName "Mitel Networks SME User Manager"
AuthType Basic
AuthExternal pwauth
$require
SetEnv IMGHDR_SRC \"/e-smith-common/$imageName\"
Satisfy all
HERE
foreach $file (@files)
{
my $requireuser = "require user admin";
$requireuser .= $panelshash{$file} if ( defined
($panelshash{$file}) );
$OUT .= "\n";
$OUT .= " <Files $file>\n";
$OUT .= " AuthName \"Mitel Networks SME User
manager\"\n";
$OUT .= " AuthType Basic\n";
$OUT .= " AuthExternal pwauth\n";
$OUT .= " $requireuser\n";
$OUT .= " </Files>\n";
}
$OUT .= "</Directory>\n";
}
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