Gre7g Luterman wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:39:00 -0500, "Jesse D. Guardiani"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Well, there is one difference between tmda-ofmipd and tmda-cgi that will
>> require a different plan of action: The password retrieval.
> 
> Actually, it wouldn't REQUIRE that.  tmda-cgi allows passwords to be
> pulled from either a central file or from a file located in the same
> directory as the user's config file.

I'll not deal with maintaining flat files for passwords, even if the flat
files are auto generated by a query to vpopmail.

That would defeat the purpose of vpopmail.


> 
> I am sure it would be more convenient to pull passwords via vchkpw,
> but I really don't know how to do that.  I believe vchkpw uses the
> same interface as checkpwd, but I haven't clue one on how to spawn a
> checkpwd program and then write to its file descriptor #3 in Python.

If you can't figure it out or don't want to figure it out, then I'll
give it a shot myself eventually. No big deal.


<snip>

>> I suggest using DJB's checkpassword interface because vpopmail's vchkpw
>> program is compatible with it(I think):
>> 
>> http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html
> 
> That only allows us to pull passwords from /etc/passwd.  Wouldn't help
> any with virtual users.

Right, but I'm pretty sure the vchkpw program that vpopmail provides uses
the same "standard" interface. That was my point. DJB's website describes
the interface.


<snip>

> There's a menu on the left that lets you look through all the pages.
> This page not only shows how I want to make tmda-cgi look, but it
> should give you an idea of what features I'm planning to add.

I saw that, and I flipped through it, but I couldn't get the pending
queue to display. Is that because it's a test account? Or is it because
it's broken in your test program or what?



> Not currently... well, you can add to the lists, but you can't edit
> them.  I do plan to add this eventually.  If you looked at the
> webpages I gave you, you'd see the sample screens.

I saw that. Pretty much identical to the qadmin-tmda whitelist editing
screens.

Eventually I'd like to make these dropdown menu based. But editing a flat
file will do for now.


> 
>> I already have a script that automates the removal of stale pending
>> email for vpopmail users,
> 
> I want to integrate this too so that users can pick how long the
> pending files stick around (http://wolfhome.com/~gre7g/layout2a.htm).

Saw that too, which is why I mentioned the pending thing in the first
place.

Again, icing.

However, do you have, or plan to have a multilevel permissions model?

WingNET would like to give certain privileges to domain administrators,
and we'd like to restrict certain people from certain functionality.

For instance, I DON'T want my domain administrators or users messing
with the pending queue auto-clean time. Disk space becomes an issue
if we allow that.

But, even if you don't have a permissions model, it can be added later.

I'd much rather start with something working and improve it than re-
invent the wheel on this one.

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