Re: aliases under the complete control of users?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Samuel Dries-Daffner <http://www.mills.edu/~daffners>
 > Date: Fri  Sep 18,  2:02pm
 >
 > I was working on a perls script to do this. STill have to mnake the suid
 > or sgid part...all in all it will work fine, just a security issue to use
 > suid. But since there is really no input from command line, should be
 > safe. If you want I can send you the script,

That would be great.  Thanks in advance.

 > and if you have some code for
 > using suid,

Sorry, I have no code for any of this.  I was hoping I didn't have to re-create
the wheel, so to speak, and, in fact, your message reveals that there already
is a wheel!

 > I'll incorporate and send it back completed,
 > 
 > Samuel Daffner
 > Mills College ITS
 > Oakland CA
 > 
 > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, robert wrote:
 > 
 > > I would like users themselves to manage their aliases.  Right now, I'm doing
 > > this:  I create a file in /var/qmail/alias:
 > > 
 > > .qmail-alias1
 > > 
 > > with this in it:
 > > 
 > > &user1-alias1
 > > 
 > > Then, the user has in his home directory:
 > > 
 > > .qmail-alias1
 > > 
 > > with this in it:
 > > 
 > > ./Mailbox
 > > 
 > > (or whatever).  The problem is that adding new aliases is a pain because
 > > I have to do it (I'm the one who installed qmail).
 > > 
 > > I saw in the qmail mailing list archives discussion about making
 > > /var/qmail/alias writeable (in some fashion) so users can add their own
 > > aliases, but I couldn't see a resolution in the discussion whether this is
 > > feasible or whether some users could end up eliminating other aliases
 > > unintentionally.
 > > 
 > > Perhaps there is a software package to do this?
 > > 
 > > Thanks.