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Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)

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From: Juha Laiho
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:02
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In article <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>Here's the setup (suggestions to follow...)
>
>1. The unix hostname and waffle systemname are both victrola.sea.wa.us
>2. I use wafalias to alias the waffle-only folks via mailin (no changes)
Don't we have a possibility for a "race" situation here?
Say, you have a shell used whose login is "foo".
Then comes a BBS newuser who registrates with the username "foo".
How is this situation handled?

..Wolf
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!ichaos!jlaiho
From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)
Organization: NullNet r.y.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:02:42 GMT
Message-ID: <C16u0I.1qC@ichaos.nullnet.fi>
Keywords: Unix version (Xenix SysV), Smail-3.1.27, Waf165
References: <2gRJXB1w165w@precipice.chi.il.us> <1993Jan20.012744.245@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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