Benny Pedersen wrote to Alan Ianson:

BP>  AI> Might be a good idea when creating new user accounts to create
BP>  AI> the entry in /etc/passwd and the account on the BBS at the same
BP>  AI> time.
BP> 
BP> is there anything in mbse that use unix / linux / bsd accounts for 
BP> anything ?

Email. The internal email gets/sends email via the users account.
There may be more too, I'm just a user of the software and not a
developer so I'm not familiar with the inner workings of MBSE.

BP> well i shot of now, but i have sayed it lots of times the idear was good, 
BP> but design of new users is bad at it is, mbse should have being virtual 
BP> users system with a berkdb backend, that way all auth could have being 
BP> build around it and linux logins via pam, point is no failure
BP> 
BP> what comes for free this way, NETWORKING :)

That sounds interesting, but I don't know what all that means.

The only networking I do here is nfs, it's all I've ever needed so I
haven't looked beyond it (yet).

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

... People say I'm apathetic, but I don't care.

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