Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!karl From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Syntax for reaching separate people under a multi-user account? Message-ID: <85@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 13:50:05 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.85 Posted: Mon Feb 4 13:50:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Feb-85 01:13:35 EST Distribution: net Organization: You really don't want to know Lines: 37 We have a problem having to do with distribution of mail. On osu-eddie, we have a utility called "alumnus," which is a semi-public login provided for use by alumni of the OSU CIS department. It provides a highly limited environment for these individuals in order to give them access to news and mail only, along with a few purely utilitarian functions. (For example, we also allow the w, users, and finger commands.) The individuals using alumnus must login under the single common name "alumnus," and thereafter the utility prompts for their "pseudologin name" and a password before commencing normal operations. After starting up, their environment is severely curtailed to provide them with a new home directory (underneath the generic "alumnus" home directory), in which are contained their private .newsrc, .plan, and mail files. We wish to allow mail to arrive for these individuals in separate mail files under these special not-quite-home directories. What we have done for the time being is to have a really ugly hack known to the system. Specifically, any mail arriving for an alumnus user must somewhere in the note contain a line of the form Alum: Then our /usr/lib/aliases contains a piped alias for destination "alumnus," and this alias is actually a rather grotesque csh script which greps for the "Alum:" line, and parses out the alumni names. Thereafter, it distributes the note to its assorted recipients. What I would like to know is: Is there some more standard way of going about the problem of distributing mail which is intended ("officially," anyway) for one login name to more than one person/file? This hack that we have does work, but it's crufty to say the least, and I'd appreciate suggestions for ways to improve our situation. Thanx much in advance. -- Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus 614/860-5107 +==-> cbrma!kk @ Ohio State University 614/422-0915 osu-eddie!karl