On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:36:03PM +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote:
> how can I use a password database instead of a textfile to authenticate
> pop-users in qmail? There are some solutions I have seen, but I am using the
> singel-user-id way described by Paul Gregg. Therefore I am using his
> suggested version of checkpoppasswd
> (http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/checkpoppasswd.c). I really
> would appreaceate to keep this password tool, because it has two nice
> features I do not want to miss (nice loging and delaying after failed
> login).
> Now my question: how many users can be kept within a text passord file until
> it gets slow?
> is there a way to use my password tool with a database? the file used is
> specified in the source (see url aboce) and I did not find any way to change
> to a database.
> If there is no possibility with this tool, what can I use instead - It must
> work with the virtual users methode described in
> http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/single-uid-howto.html.
I have a version of checkpassword that works with a cdb database, which I use
with a setup like Paul Gregg outlines. You can get it at
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/checkcdb.tar.gz.
Chris
