On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Petr Novotny wrote:
> You seem confused what the .qmail files do. BTW - what is
> /home/john/alias? It is a subdirectory of john's home? That's not
> the right way. There's a system-wide user called alias, his home is
> probably /var/qmail/alias, and .qmail-john:doe should come in THAT
> directory.
i got that, but if you want for example to make the aliases automatically
by a program you'll need the rights to write to /var/qmail/alias.
> The "aliases" in home directories would only control the part after
> the dash, like "john-sumething" is controlled by
> /home/john/.qmail-something (notice no alias subdirectory)
if i put .qmail-john:doe in homedir of john with content 'john@somehost'
it will not work (of course it works well when put in /var/qmail/alias).
> And what do you think is john.doe's password? You should supply
> your own checkpassword if you want it to know aliases - or look for
> vchkpw(?) package (URL anyone?).
yes, that is what i wanted to know ;) just wondering if there is other way
than modyfying checkpassword code.
thanks,
Marcin Jaskowiak
