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Greg Albrecht                     Safari Internet
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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:

>But if the users do not have shell access, how do they create .qmail files?
>
>Mate
>On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 10:57:41PM +0100, Joel Eriksson wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
>> 
>> > What mean things can happen if a user pipes the message to a command?
>> > They can always do it using the shell anyways.  The shell started in
>> > .qmail is run by the user...
>> 
>> You see, the server I am administrating does not allow shellaccess for
>> users, just POP3 and FTP (to put up webpages).
>> 
>> Of course the shell started by qmail-local to spawn commands specified in
>> dot-qmail files is run by the user itself. One of the main reasons for me
>> using Qmail is security.. :-)
>> 
>> Well, I just patched qmail-local.c to look in /var/qmail/control/staffusers for
>> usernames and match the UID of the user against the UID that owns the dot-qmail
>> file, so it's not a problem anymore for me. But I'm still interesting in
>> if there is some standard way of accomplishing this.
>> 
>> If there isn't, and someone has the same problem, just mail me for the patch.
>> 
>> > Mate
>> 
>> / Joel Eriksson
>> 
>
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>Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis  
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