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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: 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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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>

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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>
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