At 12:54 PM -0800 12/19/01, Chuck Yerkes wrote: > It's be neat to have clean hooks to replace the /etc/passwd > based authentication with an external one (perhaps via #define?).
This would be useful, for several reasons. There are people that prefer to run with all mail users defined in a database, for extra security and/or to avoid limits on the number of users on some platforms. The security aspect alone is compelling, as Qpopper wouldn't need to start as root anymore. Probably it should be done as a ''--with-foo" ./configure option that causes Qpopper to link with a supplied library and call standard functions. > MANY platforms don't have PAM and those that do, are sometimes > not quite compatible.\ Incompatibilities should be fixed.
