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Article #3189Re: How to set up smail3.1.27 with Unix waffle (was A Waffle question)
From: Juha Laiho
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:45
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:45
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vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes: >jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho) writes: > >>vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes: >>>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? > >it's not right now since wafalias assumes that people with the same username >in the shell and in waffle are the same person... > I just got email from someone saying that Waffle would tell that the account is already in use. >there are other waffle sites out there under unix... >what do YOU folks do ??? Presently, I give no shell access to people here, just Waffle. And I have Waffle set up to have different hostname. ..Wolf
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!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: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:45:52 GMT Message-ID: <C1E7wG.44y@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> <C16u0I.1qC@ichaos.nullnet.fi> <1993Jan24.170520.789@victrola.sea.wa.us> Lines: 24