G'Day Nigel,

25 Jul 04 13:44, you wrote to Michiel Broek:

 >> RJT> But they have a regular user account mixed in with the normal
 >> RJT> users?
 >> Hm.
 >>
 >> Yes, that has more advantages as other systems. Other systems need to
 >> run own pop daemons for email. Try to mix that with your own mail
 >> system. The other systems that don't make use of Linux are just
 >> copies of dos/windoze programs which are difficult to integrate with
 >> your whole system and thus have more risk that your system will
 >> become insecure. MBSE doesn't use own servers where good servers
 >> exist on your system like mail, http ftp etc.

 NR> This is probably worse then. There is no seperation betweeen the BBS and
 NR> other stuff that I run on my system.

 NR> This is an absolute no as far as I'm concerned.

Err.. hope you never have to use php or perl for web, database access, email
filters, network sharing or a myriad of other things with your linux system.
It's going to be a real bugger trying to figure out how to achieve any sort
of result without allowing them to access existing servers and the rest of
your linux system.

Cheers,
                Rick

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