Thanks guys. Both great and simple ideas to get me going. I was actually already considering the email trick. I just hate engineering things with work arounds because I've learned there's always that small percentage that something will go wrong. I like idiot proof. Both scenarios rely on trusting the person creating the account to do it by the book. For instance, if someone doesn't follow the rules and creates a user without populating their home directory, or bypasses the interface for user creation and does it manually, then we still have the same problem. As long as any sysadmin has root access that's always going to be possible in any setup to some degree. What's more is I've had fellow sysadmins do things like that from time to time. It would be nice to just keep it robust so that's not even a possibility, even in the slimest chances. I'd hate to end up with that handful of users unknowingling using Mbox a year from now before we discover it.
Anyway, I'll certainly do both, but my question still stands if anyone can help. :)
Thanks!
~Adam
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Lorens wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 03:51:28PM -0600, Adam M. Dunn wrote:
Personally I've avoied the problem by making my mail interface (the one that creates the account) send an e-mail to the account upon creation.
HTH
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Sysadmin wrote:
Tere.
Make folder with name Maildir into /etc/skel and so automatically new created user have folder Maildir into his home directory.
-- Sysadmin