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Geeklog, and UNIX user accounts?

Authored by: Tony on Monday, February 10 2003 @ 10:26 am EST

It should be as simple as creating a setuid script in C or your favorite shell scripting language and then calling it in Geeklog from using the exec() function.

Be sure to secure your setuid script and I'd give serious thought to using a different MTA (i.e. Courier) that allows you to create virtual accounts (i.e. don't have to have a valid file system account).

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Re: Geeklog, and UNIX user accounts?

Authored by: sardu on Monday, February 10 2003 @ 07:00 pm EST

I'll second Tony's suggestion.

If you're running an email service like that you should look at using virtual users not only for security reasons but the various virtual user packages are designed specifically for this and often make it a lot easier.

Obligatory links

Qmail users could simply add a few lines of code in createuser (public_html/users.php) to create a .qmail-user file in the alias account with the contents set to one of the various dot-qmail formats like &mail@example.com to forward the mail, or get crafty and use /path/to/geeklog/mail/user/ to store in maildir format inside the geeklog directory so you can provide a mail preview phpblock

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Lucas Thompson, sardu@mac,com

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