Re: checkcdb-0.53 + single pop user setup

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:28:01PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> It works perfectly now, after removing the -u and -g tcpserver args.
> 
> ---- <snip:/service/qmail-pop3d/run> ----
> exec softlimit -m 2000000 tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 -x \
> /etc/tcprules/pop3.cdb -c "$MAXPOP3" 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
> localhost /usr/bin/checkcdb /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d inbox 2>&1
> ---- </snip:/service/qmail-pop3d/run> ----
> 
> I was misled by Paul Gregg's qmail-single-uid-pop3d-howto.html which
> uses the -u and -g switch for tcpserver, but I see in checkcdb.c that it
> switches to the uid specified in poppasswd (actually poppasswd.cdb),
> which as you pointed out requires qmail-popup/checkcdb to run as root.

I guess since he runs all of his POP accounts with a single uid, he doesn't
need to worry about switching uids. checkcdb lets you have real as well as
virtual users with as many different uids as you like.

Chris