chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) (05/19/91)
Please forgive the crossposting--there are probably groups more appropriate that I didn't include because art-sy doesn't get them. SCO Open Desktop (SysV/386 3.2) includes the MMDF mailer. The man page for the mmdftailor file mentions syntax for some "authorization" feature(s), but with no explanation. I'm guessing I might be able to restrict who can mail to a list-outgoing address, or to certain aliased pipes, etc. Whatever it is, it could well be useful to me. Where can I find documentation? SCO doesn't provide the MMDF source. Thanks! -- Chap Flack Their tanks will rust. Our songs will last. chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us -MIKHS 0EODWPAKHS Nothing I say represents Appropriate Roles for Technology unless I say it does.
john@sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) (05/22/91)
|SCO Open Desktop (SysV/386 3.2) includes the MMDF mailer. The man page for |the mmdftailor file mentions syntax for some "authorization" feature(s), |but with no explanation. I'm guessing I might be able to restrict who |can mail to a list-outgoing address, or to certain aliased pipes, etc. |Whatever it is, it could well be useful to me. | |Where can I find documentation? SCO doesn't provide the MMDF source. The authorization features are not yet supported by SCO, but they are available (unsupported) in the product, with a few caveats. The papers ``Configuring MMDF Authorisation'' by Steve Kille, and ``Authorisation and Accounting'' by Kille and D.H. Brink are available with the rest of the documentation available from the University of Delaware. One big caveat is that because the SCO provided mail user agents use a common setuid program to submit mail, user-based authorization does not work on mail generated on the local machine. You can still use user-based authentication in many situations. For example, if your connection to uunet is from a central hub, and the users that you wish to block from passing mail through uunet are not local to that hub, you can do it. The other caveat, again, is that authorization is not a supported feature, so you can't call support if you're having trouble with it.