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Aug 7, 2009, 11:17 AM
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Re: User's Maildir in dir other than $HOME
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On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Matt Simpson wrote:
> At 12:05 PM 8/7/09, up [at] 3 wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply....I just did that, as well as had a look at
>> qmail-pw2u. It looks like if I were to use qmail-pw2u and have a
>> users/assign entry for every system user, it would put me back to square
>> one, since it takes the user's home directory path directly from the
>> /etc/passwd file. However, if I could get by with one wildcard entry, that
>> would do the trick.
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> Sorry. Maybe I misunderstood the problem. users/assign will allow you to
> specify any directory you want for the user's "home" directory (which is
> where qmail will look for .qmail files, and maybe where it will look for
> Maildir, depending on what it finds in .qmail files and qmail startup
> default). This will be checked for anything that qmail thinks is a local
> user, which would include "users" mapped from virtual domains, whether or not
> they actually exist as system users. (I don't use vpopmail, so I'm a little
> fuzzy about how it fits into the picture). This will allow you to separate
> mail directories from web hosting directories.
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> AFAIK, there is no wildcarding capability for the directory parameter of the
> assign entry, so you would probably need one assign entry for each owner of a
> mail directory. If you're looking for a way to avoid all those entries, I
> don't have any ideas.
Ok, that pretty much answered my question, thanks. It did occur to me
that I could use qmail-pw2u once to create the file, then simply hand edit
the virtual host users and have my adduser script add an entry to
users/assign each time I add a new user.
I would however, prefer to avoid that complexity and the potential
pitfalls I see there (removing users, changing them from/to vhost
customers, etc). I'm thinking now that instead of messing with the qmail
end of things, perhaps proftp's "DefaultRoot" entry might be a better way
to approach this. In other words, make every mail system user's $HOME be
/home/users/$USER and tell proftp to chroot them to
/web/servers/theirdomain when they FTP in. Those that have shell logins
will be presumed to know how to deal with it. :)
Thanks!
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up [at] 3 http://3.am
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