On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 15:19:34 +0100 Philipp Specht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PS> Hi! PS> PS> Ivan F. Martinez wrote: PS> > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:57:22 +0100 (CET) PS> > Andreas Aardal Hanssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PS> > AAH> Hmm.. perhaps I should make a "user contributions" page with PS> > AAH> authenticators? PS> > PS> > Maybe create a contrib directory with program distribution, and it PS> > will be delivered in every tarball. PS> > PS> > Also about athentication, why does not make selection of PS> > authentication program inside the config file (bindimap.conf) ? PS> > Instead of passing from command line, this can make easier to PS> > administer. No need to changed xinetd files to change bincimap PS> > authenticator. PS> > PS> PS> This would break "qmail style" compatibility and would be the first PS> step to "Courier style" config files. PS> PS> Do you really believe that's a step in the right direction? :o) One good advantage of using xinetd is to changing config without stopping and starting services. As administrator the use of .conf files is better than having part of configuration in the xinetd config. I don't expect the software to use one style, I expect it to be easy to administer, backup, etc... -- Ivan F. Martinez
