38 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Re: giving makeus...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Ben Rosengart | Jul 5, 2002 4:02 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jul 5, 2002 5:02 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 5, 2002 8:51 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jul 5, 2002 8:59 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 16, 2002 8:19 am | |
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| Ben Rosengart | Jul 17, 2002 1:17 pm | |
| Gordon Messmer | Jul 17, 2002 1:40 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jul 17, 2002 2:55 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 17, 2002 3:41 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 17, 2002 3:53 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jul 17, 2002 4:11 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 6:35 am | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 9:32 am | |
| Jesse Keating | Jul 18, 2002 9:48 am | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 11:05 am | |
| Jesse Keating | Jul 18, 2002 11:12 am | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jul 18, 2002 11:30 am | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 12:19 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 12:36 pm | |
| David Miller | Jul 18, 2002 1:14 pm | |
| Gordon Messmer | Jul 18, 2002 1:32 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Jul 18, 2002 1:39 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 1:49 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 1:52 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 1:54 pm | |
| Jesse Keating | Jul 18, 2002 1:58 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jul 18, 2002 2:03 pm | |
| Bowie Bailey | Jul 18, 2002 2:05 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Jul 18, 2002 2:08 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 2:29 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 2:33 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 18, 2002 2:37 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jul 18, 2002 4:56 pm | |
| Alessandro Vesely | Jul 18, 2002 11:00 pm | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 19, 2002 1:27 pm | |
| Todd Lyons | Jul 20, 2002 11:29 am | |
| Ben Rosengart | Jul 22, 2002 7:43 pm |
| Subject: | Re: [courier-users] Re: giving makeuserdb a little flexibility | |
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| From: | Ben Rosengart (br...@panix.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 22, 2002 7:43:40 pm | |
| List: | net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users | |
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:34:03PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote:
Host A does not run courier. It's a configuration management host. It stores the userdb source files somewhere, and writes B's userdb data files to /export/B, and C's to /export/C.
I think I realized where the confusion stems from. You think I'm running makeuserdb on hosts B and C. If I did that, then there would not be a problem. But I have been proceeding all this time on the assumption that makeuserdb would be running on host A.
The problem with running makeuserdb on hosts B and C is that it costs me an ssh every time I change a database on host A. On the other hand, the locking of the database is more likely to work correctly. I have to think about this more.
This still leads to miserable hacks, as I knew it would. Courier runs inside a chroot; makeuserdb must run outside the chroot, unless I put perl inside the chroot, which would be giving an attacker an awful lot. So maketestuser and imapd *still* end up seeing different paths to the userdb. As a last resort, I am now running "sed 's/wrong path/right path/g' < maketestuser | perl" instead of maketestuser.
-- Ben Rosengart (212) 741-4400 x215
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