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How to do users #6

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opened 2024-07-03 21:22:16 -06:00 by sashakoshka · 4 comments
sashakoshka commented 2024-07-03 21:22:16 -06:00
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We all have tebibyte emails and we are all users on the server. Mintee ought to be able to pull from that. However, we should also allow anonymous users, and we also need to keep in mind ActivityPub/Fediforge.

We all have tebibyte emails and we are all users on the server. Mintee ought to be able to pull from that. However, we should also allow anonymous users, and we also need to keep in mind ActivityPub/Fediforge.
sashakoshka changed title from How to implement users to How to do users 2024-07-03 21:22:23 -06:00
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emma commented 2025-08-06 23:47:42 -06:00
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users can be stored as a user/domain pair and a type to define how the user needs to be displayed to the frontends, like Activitypub users being @user@server, e-mail users being user@server, and local users being @user. Unix users oughtta be the default configuration and Mintee’s backend could use passwd files for virtual user Unix auth or store users in the database. the benefit of passwd files is that a single authentication passwd file could be shared on services where an smtp server is configured to use it, allowing the creation of a mail account to also create a forge account and vice versa.

users can be stored as a user/domain pair and a type to define how the user needs to be displayed to the frontends, like Activitypub users being @user@server, e-mail users being user@server, and local users being @user. Unix users oughtta be the default configuration and Mintee’s backend could use passwd files for virtual user Unix auth or store users in the database. the benefit of passwd files is that a single authentication passwd file could be shared on services where an smtp server is configured to use it, allowing the creation of a mail account to also create a forge account and vice versa.
emma commented 2025-08-06 23:50:12 -06:00
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OpenBSD credentials table files ought to be supported too.

OpenBSD [credentials table files](https://man.openbsd.org/table#Credentials_tables) ought to be supported too.
sashakoshka commented 2025-08-07 10:05:00 -06:00
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passwd file

Would we also be doing authentication using /etc/shadow or would there be a separate database of passwords?

> passwd file Would we also be doing authentication using /etc/shadow or would there be a separate database of passwords?
emma commented 2025-08-07 15:13:12 -06:00
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passwd file

Would we also be doing authentication using /etc/shadow or would there be a separate database of passwords?

Real, non-virtual system users can be authenticated using bsdauth on OpenBSD and PAM on Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.

> > passwd file > > Would we also be doing authentication using /etc/shadow or would there be a separate database of passwords? Real, non-virtual system users can be authenticated using [bsdauth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Authentication) on OpenBSD and PAM on Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
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