He can also enable the learn password option in vpopmail, I think this would be an easy way to deal with it myself. What do you think?
-John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul L. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Oliver Etzel - GoodnGo.COM (R)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:47 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Re: Inserting new users via mysql-insert into the vpopmail database > > Oliver Etzel - GoodnGo.COM \(R\) writes: > > > I want to create new users like [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOT with vadduser > > BUT with just inserting it via mysql-insert into the vpopmail > > database. > > OK, you have now explained what you want to use instead. Somebody else > pointed out that the maildir will be created automatically by vdelivermail > if the user exists (I hadn't realized it did that until I read that > message and looked at the code just now) so you can get away with doing > that. What you have yet to explain is any valid or sensible reason WHY > you want to do this. > > > Any hints, > > how I can generate the encrypted password in the column pw_passwd > > (looks like this $1$S/TPu$GjMMj7yMJqG.0ckx) ??????? > > Not without breaking out of MySQL and returning to the shell. The > hard way is to get a shell prompt, use passwd to set the password of a > dummy system user then copy the crypted password into the MySQL command. > The harder way is to write a perl script that generates some good random > salt, calls crypt to crypt the password then uses the DBD modules to > insert the user into MySQL. An easy way to do it is to add the > user with MySQL giving garbage for the crypted password then use vmoduser > to set a valid crypted password. The very easy way to do it is to run > vadduser. > > You CANNOT do it all from MySQL. You CAN do it all with vadduser. What > is more, I can see no reason why you would want to add a user but NOT > have the maildir created at the same time, which is all you could achieve > if you could do it all from MySQL If you have some automation tool > that can only cope with adding MySQL rows then you'll still have to > modify it to shell out to generate the crypted password, so you might > as well modify it to shell out and run vadduser anyway. If you want > domain admins to be able to add users this way because they cannot run > vadduser you'll still have to write code that validates they can only > modify their own domains, so you'd be far better off installing something > like qmailadmin on your server. > > -- > Paul Allen > Softflare Support > > >
