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From: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,alt.bbs,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Mail to/from a BBS (one login, many users)
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.074034.12656@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 29 Jun 90 07:40:34 GMT
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
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Hi there,
I'm running XBBS under ISC 2.02, with elm as a mailer.  I'd like
to do the following:

1) all users login as "bbs" (only one login)
2) no users gain access to shells unless permitted (scratch vi, hack elm)
3) elm should read username from environment variable

I tried setting up elm with various environment variables, e.g.

HOME=/bbs/users/Paul.Gillingwater
MAIL=/bbs/mail/Paul.Gillingwater

This introduces a few problems.  Specifically, 14 character file names
mean that there is a namespace collision with the mailbox and its lockfile.

ANother related problem is how do I address mail in and out?  I'm following
the path of using IDA sendmail, and defining the bbs as a sub-domain, e.g.

Paul.Gillingwater@bbs.actrix.co.nz

We haven't quite got this going yet.

Can someone suggest some solutions to the above?  I'd rather not give
a separate login to all users, because of the admin overhead.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz