Hi Mark,
>In this way you can still use the .qmail mechanism when needed, but users
>don't have the ability to change it directly.
Interestingly enough you can still do this using ~alias, without creating
additional
mailhomes.
In our situation most of the 'stuff' related to a user is exported from one
big NetApp, and creating additional mountpoints and large directory structures
needs to be thought through carefully.
>It requires patches to qmail-getpw and checkpassword which you'll need to
>make yourself and it also means you have to create and remove their
mailhome
>as users are created and deleted.
Yes -- there is overhead either way.
NRM
--
Niall Richard Murphy: System Operator, Ireland On-Line
"I admit I find it hard to focus lots of resources on trials and things
when the Internet is taking away our power every day."
- Bill Gates, internal email, April 1995
