Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot)

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>]

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 09:41 -0500, kashani wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Just wondering, can I say, have a virtual domain user user1@localdomain
> > (where localdomain is really local but just hosted as a virtual domain)
> > which can have SSH/FTP access using the same password to access their
> > email?
> 
> My understanding is the are two major ways to solve this.
> 
> 1. pam + db for all accounts including local accounts
> 	Some db magic with pam or whatever local auth you do. This way the user 
> still has some sort of central auth and doesn't end up with 2 different 
> passwords and so forth. All accounts are virtual, but users designated 
> as local also get shell, ftp, etc.
> 
> 2. One localdomain and all others are truly virtual.
> 	set localdomain.com as local in your virtual config and everything else 
> to virtual. The pop/imap/smtp daemons should auth locally and it pretty 
> much just works in my experience. The caveat is that it is only feasible 
> to have one domain as local and it's generally an all local or all 
> virtual sort of thing. Mixing and matching local and virtual users 
> within the same domain can be painful and hard to manage.
> 
> 	I did #2 since it's easy and I like sleep. I use Postfix, Courier, and 

#2 is really very straightforward and that's already accomplishable.
However, in the name of experimentation, I'm looking towards how to
implement #1. if you have any more leads, do tell.

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