From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3WDy-000828-En for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:53:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7C9odEP013426; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:50:39 GMT Received: from wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com (wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com [129.253.170.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7C9oci0026707 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:50:38 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([129.253.107.157]) by wdscexfe01.sc.wdc.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:51:36 -0700 Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7C9sDtY023108 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:54:13 +0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42FBAE60.1050100@badapple.net> References: <1123731973.5878.30.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <42FAD180.3030902@buanzo.com.ar> <1123735176.5878.36.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <42FB63A5.8040600@badapple.net> <42FB8241.2040408@badapple.net> <42FBA68A.4030607@badapple.net> <42FBAE60.1050100@badapple.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:54:12 +0800 Message-Id: <1123840452.20946.24.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Aug 2005 09:51:37.0248 (UTC) FILETIME=[6E42F200:01C59F23] X-Archives-Salt: 5dd4faf3-8fc7-4be8-bfac-279f0b2a6d58 X-Archives-Hash: 1c6dfda6a0a21617c8fe5d85fe740288 On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 15:00 -0500, kashani wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, kashani wrote: > > > >>Well yeah, but what happens when they ssh or ftp to the server? That's > >>the part I'm confused about. How does vpopmail auth them locally for > >>things other than mail which goes back to the original question. > > > > > > Our shell server and web servers are separate from our mail server but > > there's no reason you couldn't run this setup on the same server. > > > > Using libnss-mysql, you can have ssh and ftp also authenticate out of a > > MySQL database (the same database if you want). And since Pine and mutt on > > the shell server are configured to use IMAP, shell users can login and > > check email from there too. Ah.. I see, since everything is stored in the db, you essentially are using the db to get the passwords. (this is like LDAP and posixAccounts). i would believe that this is also do-able via pam /passwd files, the caveat is then that they have to be on the same server else some rsync jobs to sync the passwords etc. > > > > Basically all of this has allowed us to move to an almost completely > > virtual setup where ordinary users dont have any "real" system accounts at > > all. > > And that isn't option #1 aka, stuff everything in a db and do central > auth from there" how? See I'm even loosing sleep just talking about > option #1. The rest of you have been warned. :) Looking forward to loosing sleep and thinning hair :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:51:59 up 2:02, 7 users, load average: 0.58, 0.74, 0.82 -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list