RE: fastforward and location of aliases file

[David Harris]

Steve Tylock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
[[snip]]
> I have fastforward, and have modified most of the backend to work
> with ~user/.qmail, and still run the rest out of /etc/aliases.
>
> I'd like this backend to work as a user other than root, but
> newaliases requires the file /etc/aliases.tmp, and I can't make
> that a link...
>
> Any ideas on solutions short of:
>   using a group permission on /etc
>   hacking into the newaliases code myself

I don't think there is any way short of hacking the code. Here is the patch you
want:

http://www.davideous.com/misc/fastforward-0.51_aliasloc.patch

This patch makes the filename for the database to update the first argument
passed to newalises. Beware that this patch does not update the documentation
or any of the error messages.

 - David Harris
   Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services

Re: fastforward and location of aliases file

[Mirko Zeibig]

On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 10:21:42AM -0400, Steve Tylock wrote:
> (I used qmail for my tiny site within Kodak 3 years ago, and have
> just converted my new employer (~200 accounts) to it...)
> 
> We have an automated environment where an LDAP server is the key data
> repository.  Users manage aliases and forwarding through a web page.
> With sendmail, a backend took the data and massaged it into an
> /etc/aliases file.
> 
> I have fastforward, and have modified most of the backend to work
> with ~user/.qmail, and still run the rest out of /etc/aliases.
> 
> I'd like this backend to work as a user other than root, but
> newaliases requires the file /etc/aliases.tmp, and I can't make
> that a link...
> 
> Any ideas on solutions short of:
>   using a group permission on /etc
>   hacking into the newaliases code myself
I am not quite sure, but a grep over the sources showed that the position
/etc/aliases.tmp is only twice found in newaliases.c, so I guess replacing
this one should be enough.

Regards
Mirko