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- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Path: 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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- 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
-