Re: password database

2000-08-24 Thread Jenny Holmberg
Gjermund Sorseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I should have added that my number of 1 comes from the days before > some vendors added caching, like Sun with their nscd program. With > these new schemes the number can be much higher, but programs > like nscd introduce other problems and I rec

Re: password database

2000-08-24 Thread Gjermund Sorseth
> > Clemens Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now my question: how many users can be kept within a text passord > > > file until it gets slow? > > > > Gjermund Sorseth replies: > > In my experience, about 1 but it probably varies. > > Jenny Holmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rep

Re: password database

2000-08-23 Thread Jenny Holmberg
Gjermund Sorseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Clemens Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now my question: how many users can be kept within a text passord > > file until it gets slow? > > In my experience, about 1 but it probably varies. I ran into that > limit a few years back

Re: password database

2000-08-23 Thread Clemens Hermann
her story. If you have time I would greatly appreciate to hear a few lines about it. I won't have any need the next years for this (I hope ;-) but anyway I really would like to know what comes after a password database. No description how (for me ;-) but if you like a few words what. thanks

Re: password database

2000-08-22 Thread Chris Johnson
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

Re: password database

2000-08-22 Thread Ramy M. Hassan
check vpopmail http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail , it has several authentication modules like like cdb, mysql, and oracle __Ramy M. Hassan__ On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Clemens Hermann wrote: > Hi, > > how can I use a password database ins

Re: password database

2000-08-22 Thread Gjermund Sorseth
Clemens Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how can I use a password database instead of a textfile to authenticate > pop-users in qmail? Easy. Make a C library that implements getpwnam() such that it looks up users in a Berkeley DB or GDBM database, then link the

password database

2000-08-22 Thread Clemens Hermann
Hi, 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