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

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

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.
> 
> 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. :)

kashani
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