On Wednesday 25 June 2003 21:32, Rick Macdougall wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe I'm missing something, but why can't you continue to use userdb > for system users? > > qmail - will still work like it used to
yup. qmail isnt involved at this point. > courier-imap will work with it > courier-pop will work with it. err ... because we aren't using courier-imap or courier-pop? we are using tcpserver and qmail-pop3d, authenticating against vchkpw. as described in the vpopmail INSTALL file. if courier-pop will do it for us, (authenticating system users agaisnt /etc/userdb and virtual domains against vchkpw ) then thats what we'll do ... I thought courier-pop used a cdb database thing, /etc/userdb is a gd database ... shrug .. I'll go and check out this 'courier-pop' thing then. thanks ... > Regards, > > Rick > > Robin Szemeti wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have been running qmail with sqwebmail for web-mail, we have been > > using /etc/userdb for sqwebmail authentication, as this is allows us to > > have seperate mail passwords to ssh/login passwords on system accounts > > ... > > > > we've recently upgraded to vpopmail and vchkpw and would really like to > > continue with the 'seperate password' scenario, but as far as I can see > > the only option is to authenticate system accounts agaisnt /etc/passwd > > > > My only thoughts so far are to set up a virtual domain for localhost, add > > users to the domain and then symlink > > /var/vpopmail/domains/localhost/<username> to /home/<username> .... > > > > this must be an already-solved oroblem, and I'm just not seeing it ... > > any clues? -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
