On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
> In Exim 3, the require_files option has the feature where you can
> specify a user name, and it does the stat() as that user.[1] For example,
>
> require_files = $local_part : /home/$local_part/.procmailrc
>
> ...
>
> My own feeling is that we probably no longer need this, but you may
> disagree...
Certainly our current configuration, checking for forward files and so on,
accesses home directories via NFS with root-squash enabled, so without
this option, our current mechanism wouldn't work.
I suppose the simplest way round it would be to disable root-squash
(removing what little protection it offers).
Building a database of this [as someone suggested] isn't really practical
with ~22,000 accounts, over about 60 filesystems.
However, from our point of view, this isn't a problem, in the medium term,
as we're planning to move our forwarding information from files in the
user's home directories to a database file of some sort, to remove the
dependancy of the mail system on home directories. I guess other people
may be doing it the way we currently do, though.
- Bob
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Bob Franklin <r.c.franklin@???> Tel. +44 (0)118 931 8432
Systems and Communications, IT Services, The University of Reading, UK
