Re: [lias] Re: [SLUG] Webmail - advice sought

[Jeffrey Borg <jeffrey@nospam.borgs.net>]

as far as  usernames goes

it's only for 2 years or whatever anyway not exactly lifetime

so make the usernames

00lastnamefirstname

or whatever combo u like

just make sure you put the year of enrolnment in there

make the home directories

/home/00/00lastnamefirstname

etc


to remove a year

edit passwd file and remove users
rm -rf the home directories
rm -f /var/spool/00*

otherwise

to be not so cruel

if you don't want that you will have to write something (hint here! use
perl and mysql as database of students) and admin it that way

that also means you can use php and have a web based admin for the
frontend

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:

> Yes I had also thought along those lines. When I started with all this the 
> thought of adding 900 users to Linux was a daunting thought -I guess seniors 
> only would be about 300 initially and the 150 on and off each year - and all I 
> really new was adduser on the command line and manually editing the 
> password file to remove them again. You tend to get into a mindset after a 
> while. Also we would have to add a mail client to all our machines (we 
> deliberatley did not install OE or netscape Mail), and I am still a novice when 
> it comes to managing Sendmail. Wheras webmail will run with the existing 
> browsers.
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> > 
> > > Am already running Cameron Simpsons adzapper, which works well. But a
> > > lot of the graphics etc are not adds as such. Maybe Cameron can add all
> > > the hotmail junk to the zapper?
> > 
> > Hmmm, fair enuff. Yes, webmail is the worst way of doing email.
> > 
> > > > 1) A registered domain.
> > > olmc.nsw.edu.au
> > 
> > Good start.
> > 
> > > > 2) A routable IP address
> > > Yep
> > 
> > Better start
> > 
> > > > 3) An MX record and exchanger.
> > > I guess so, as we already receive mail, it is a permanent dial-up.
> > 
> > So why not just run a local mail server, and only give your seniors
> > accounts on it? Completely block web traffic from all except selected
> > machines {if required}, and just let sendmail spool to the local linux
> > box?
> > 
> > > > 4) The web server software, linked with sendmail.
> > > The tricky bit! :-)
> > 
> > I suspect this could be overkill - if they're using the webmail, then
> > obviously they have access to machines - it's not hard to give them shell
> > accounts on the Unix box - hell, even POP3 accounts - and let them just do
> > mail that way - it'd save you ever accessing the web sites again, you
> > could procmail them to restrict mail size to something reasonable,
> > stopping large file attachments.
> > 
> > That's what I'd do, anyway.
> > 
> > DaZZa
> 
> 
> 
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> Information Technology Manager sbryan@nospam.mpx.com.au
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