[dspam-users] Re: Options and database setup

Frank 'Sigi' Luithle wrote:

> * Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> [2005-12-29 14:16:19 +0300]:
>
>>> Also you should know that if you enable virtual users, DSPAM will
>>> expect to find every user in the virtual user database. So if you
>>> have local Unix users as well you have to create a dummy entry for
>>> them in the database (did anyone manage to get around this?).
>> I never do it for local unix users. DSPAM creates them in the DB.
>> I always compile with --enable-virtual-users.
>
> DSPAM certainly does not create your local Unix users in the DB
> automatically. If you have existing local accounts and want to use
> virtual users, you will have to create users of the appropriate names
> in the DB yourself. At least this is what I found when setting it up.

This is certainly not so on my rigs. dspam creates and maintains its
virtual users itself, assigning uid numbers automatically.
>
> I haven't found a way to make DSPAM look up users in both the SQL
> tables and the local user database (i.e. /etc/passwd).

I'll not quarrel with that, but virtual users wouldn't be in the system
(passwd, NIS, LDAP) anyway, would they?

--Tonni

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Tony Earnshaw
Email: tonni@barlaeus.nl