my suggestion is related about which user and group vpopmail run's not about authentication.
no authentication is involved in this On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Matt Brookings<m...@inter7.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tren Blackburn wrote: >> And since no one else has mentioned this...some of us don't use >> /etc/passwd for authentication. So searching /etc/passwd would not work >> anyway. Isn't there a C function call to check user/group id? Or at >> least a universal alternative... > > I was being too general for the sake of brevity when I referenced parsing of > /etc/passwd. > The getpwnam and related functions use whatever authentication system you > have for authenticating > system users. > - -- > /* > Matt Brookings <m...@inter7.com> GnuPG Key FAE0672C > Software developer Systems technician > Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. (815)776-9465 > */ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkqJwwMACgkQIwet2/rgZyzK2QCfRztW8ghVEwGbKHntqZpwXPyz > ZTMAnjfCSn8gEdyG4pZGea4vybV2Q003 > =jUad > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- ------------ Itamar Reis Peixoto e-mail/msn: ita...@ispbrasil.com.br sip: ita...@ispbrasil.com.br skype: itamarjp icq: 81053601 +55 11 4063 5033 +55 34 3221 8599 !DSPAM:4a89c3a432716349971963!
