Re: [SM-USERS] Squirrelmail ISP-Usage

[Bruce R. <its...@uk...>]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:50:48AM -0700, p dont think wrote:
> > 3.  Set up preferences to be taken from a database.  You could then do
> > something as simple as making the preferences table read-only to
> > SquirrelMail (or, to be precise, to the user account through which SM
> > connects to the database).
>=20
> again, denying access to resources that SM assumes it will have is not a
> good way to solve this problem.=20

Not if you are using a smart RDBMS.  Then you could point SquirrelMail
at a view rather than a genuine table.  It wouldn't be hard with
Postgres or SQL server to have a view that showed you all your
preferences when you read to it but silently discarded certain updates
or inserts.

--=20
Bruce

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