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 1E3J3m-0000k6-1N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:49:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7BJjweF014063; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:45:58 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7BJjvr7005459 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:45:57 GMT Received: (qmail 41186 invoked by uid 0); 11 Aug 2005 19:46:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 11 Aug 2005 19:46:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:44:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) In-Reply-To: <42FBA68A.4030607@badapple.net> Message-ID: 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> 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: bbe0dcd1-032d-4bf8-9f5e-a5ef1bdcf49f X-Archives-Hash: 02e974c99d831321cbb46e5b50d63e23 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. -- -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list