Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.
On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:36:25 -0600 Jens B Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trouble is that none of the utilities (that I know of) allow you to specify the password on the command line. Perhaps you can do it with pipes, like the following. This is the sort of problem that you use expect and mkpasswd for. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: security and guest accounts
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:49:04 -0800 Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a safe way to set up a `guest' user-account with a publicly known password? The usual method is to set it up in a chroot jail using a restricted shell. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: fetchmail, exim and pine
On Sat, 27 Nov 99 20:39:41 GMT John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b. I understand a .forward file (in my home directory) will enable me to sort incoming mail. Can I create it in a text editor (say pico or ee - my favourites) and are there any special rules and examples. You can create a .forward file with any text editor: emacs, vi, pio, whatever. The contents are either the email address you want your mail forwarded to, or the command you wish your mail processed with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or | procmail -f- If youare using Exim and wish to have your mail filtered by procmail however there is a better way in that you have Exim look for an recognise the existance of a .procmailrc (procmail's control file) and go from there. Look in the archives for this list for my posts on this subject in the last week or so detailing exactly how to do this. c. What are RFC 821 and RFC 822. RFC 821 defines the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the protocol which defines how different systems exchange email. RFC 822 defines the format and headers of Internet email messages. A good place to find out more than you want to know about RFCs: http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/RFC/ -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Mail front end
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:07:28 +0100 Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In lists.linux.debian.user, you wrote: I am looking for something like MS Exchange with folder and such. You could try xfmail, for example -- IIRC it supports folders. Most if not all MUA (Mail User Agens) support folders. Examples enclude: exmh (wot I use), balsa, tkrat, mutt, elm, mutt, arrow, NetscapeMail and many others. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Mail front end
On 27 Nov 1999 18:16:47 +0100 Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has this already been ported to a better (and freer) toolkit than xforms, like GTK+ (or at least Qt)? XFMail is tightly married to XForms. I would not expect this to change. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Mail front end
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:12:34 + (GMT) Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XFMail is tightly married to XForms. I would not expect this to change. Darned ugly too. Enough to make you yearn for Windows!! shrug This is a common disagreement for me. I just don't care what the thing looks like as long as it does what I need and consumes minimal screen real estate. Consuming minimal screen real estate is critical and is what flunks out most tools -- espcially those things which insist on having toolbars or putting bloody icons about the place (I never ever want to see an icon on my desktop. Period.). XFMail fails both those criteria by handling MIME obtusely (eg it doesn't display message/rfc822 inline, or handle multipart/mixed digests worth a damn), and consumes great gobs of screen real estate. The mail client I use is the excellent (IMHO) Ishmail. exmh here. Its not cute, or is at least no more cute than Tk in general (and of course there are several widget hacks for Tk), but is endlessly extensible -- which is another primary requirement for me. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: VPN without CisCO or Red CreeK
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:02:10 +0200 Denis J Cirulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there ! I have to make VPN like : [ LAN-A ] --- Linux router/VPN gateway - leased line - Linux router/VPN gateway - [ LAN B ] Is here poeple who had made such a VPN using only Linux without special VPN hardware ? Many. Possible options enclude: IPSec/FreeSWAM PPP over SSH VPNd A quick web search encluding Freshmeat should point you most places you need to go. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: potato and 2 processors
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:43:18 -0200 (EDT) Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How good is potato, mainly 2.2.x (x= 13), in SMP? I means: how stable is it? (kernel and potato) with this config. I have 3 MP machines running potato as servers currently, down from a previous high of 6. Unsurprisingly none have evidenced any problem not generic to Linux at those kernel revs on MP machines. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: exim and procmail?
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:44:37 - (UTC)
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried this, but I get: Starting MTA: 1999-11-22 21:41:17 Exim
configuration error transport procmail: cannot find transport
driver localuser in line 362
You should have a director stanza (after the procmail director I
quoted) in your exim.conf that reads something like:
localuser:
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
Where the local_delivery transport looks something like:
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
(The above is not the default stanza -- I've added several bits to it)
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Re: exim and procmail?
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 04:20:31 - (UTC) Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have all of this, so it seems I just need to move the procmail director upward. Yes, it must be above the localuser. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
