On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:48:47PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>that UNIX has a limit on the UID's of 65534, any file that has a UID
>higher than that number defaults back to UID0..
Actually, it's more like they get UID%65534, but it's a similar result ;-)
>I have read the MySQL patch, and from what I understand, the user
>accounts still need a UID in the MySQL database, as well as their home
>directories need to be owned by the UID assigned to them in MySQL...
Yes, it needs *A* UID, doesn't say it needs a *UNIQUE* ID. I set up
a similar system using my own checkpoppasswd (I can provide it if you
like, it's written in Python) which uses the hashed directories and
stores all the data under one user-id. Works great, especially over
NFS, because the passwords are in the user home directory, so they
get distributed via NFS as well. No need to sync /etc/passwd between
machines.
The other alternative is to use something like vpopmail or vmailmgr.
Sean
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