On or about 06:30 PM 3/14/99 -0800, Mark Delany was caught in a dark alley
speaking these words:
>Often admins (at ISPs especially) give users some form of write access to
>their home directories so they can fiddle with their ~user home page or
>plonk stuff down for remote ftp.
[snip]
>It's really only a problem for sites that are small enough to have all of a
>users home characteristics on one system. As soon as mail delivery is placed
>on a dedicated service away from, eg, public_html, the problem goes away.
Right-o... *especially* in qmail's case. It's so processor / memory
miserly, that many start-up shops may have the chance to run everything
from one server, even if that server couldn't handle sendmail & web at the
same time.
Personally, I say: "Don't do it... it's a trap." If one box goes down, you
don't want _all_ of your services to say bye-bye. If you need to run a
backup DNS and/or authentication server anyway, it's best to divide mail &
web services, too.
That advice has saved my bacon more than a few times... :-)
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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SysAdmin - Iceberg Computers
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