DAve wrote:
A quick check of using Perl to auth against a vpopmaild instance works
just dandy. I hacked up a copy of the generic checkpassword.pl script
from qmail.org and had it working pretty quickly. It took longer to
upgrade my test server and get vpopmaild working.
Cool!
But what is the silent option? Did you mean compact?
Sorry, I should have looked at the code before I replied...
In the latest development release there are three possible ways to
login. These were added because the old login method with the compact
flag did not allow spaces in passwords. The new login methods are:
login - Check the user and password. If valid return the entire data
record on the user that just logged in, written out in a very long format.
clogin - This is the equivalent to the old compact flag. This mode
compresses the output by sending the numeric value of gid_flags instead
of writing each one out.
slogin - This is what I am thinking as the ideal for authentication
checks. It simply returns err or ok depending on if the user exists and
had a valid password.
If you want to continue using the version of vpopmail with the compact
option, I do suggest using compact as it will reduce the amount of data
the server returns with each request. The user information is useful for
a qmailadmin like program to look at the rights of the user who just
logged in to determine what options it should show them. A user who has
rights to manage the entire system will see many more menu options than
one who is only allowed to change their own password...
There is a bit of an issue with the development version for people using
database back ends. The table structure needs to be changed to provide
for longer domain names. (from 64 to 96 characters) Also if you are
storing limits in the database, two new fields must be added to the
limits table: disable_spamassassin and delete_spam to make it match the
latest code for non-database installations. See INSTALL.
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