On Thursday 03 April 2003 15:40, you wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:34:01AM -0500, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote:
> > But wait, there's more! Currently tmda-ofmipd also calls an
> > external program to retrieve virtual user home directories.
> > (See the -S option) Something like that is a must for virtual
> > users.
> >
> > I'd be more than willing to work with you on this as far as
> > requirements and implementation go with virtual users. I'd
> > love to see virtual user support become global in TMDA.
>
> Cool.  I'd love your help as neither Gre7g or I have virtual
> users setup on our machines, no any experience therewith, and
> we'd love to get tmda-cgi working for virtual users!
>
> As far as I can understand from tmda-ofmipd's code, this -S
> option's script just coughs up the user's home directory instead
> of referring to /etc/passwd like we'd normally do.

Yes.


>
> Once this is added to Auth.py so it is able to set the HOME
> environment variable correctly so that '~' expansion works
> properly, is there anything else necessary for virtual users to
> work?

Hmmm... there is something nagging in the back of my head that
tells me that it isn't quite so simple...

For instance, say you have two domains:

mydomain1.com
mydomain2.com

And EACH domain has a user named 'billybob':

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Which user will ~billybob refer to?

I'm all for it personally, but I'm having trouble making my
mind jump through the necessary hoops to understand how we/you might
implement it.



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