when do you think we'll be able to see it? On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <mbhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <da...@users.sf.net> wrote: >> Recent vpopmail versions seem to provide that module. I have not found any >> time to test this myself, I only took this information from the changelog. > > I wrote the brand new authvchkpw module for the recent vpopmail > version. I will be maintaining that module from now on. I had actually > written a courier-imap authentication module 'authindi' for my > mailserver (http://www.indimail.org). So with slight modification to > use vpopmail database, I was able to write the same for vpopmail. > > I also have a daemon nssd - Name Service Switch Daemon (which uses > Name Service) to extend getpwnam, getpwbynam, etc functions to be > extended into any MySQL database. By using nssd, you need require only > the authshadow or the authpam module. By tweaking the configuration > file, the getpwnam() calls in authpam and authshadow automatically > gets extended to lookup inside your MySQL database. Also if you run > the nscd (name service cache daemon) on your box, your requests gets > cached and this tremendously reduces the calls to MySQL resulting in > better performance. As long as your IMAP/POP3 server has a way of > authenticating against your /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, you can use nssd > to transparently authenticate against your own MySQL database without > modifying a single line of your IMAP/POP3 server. The NSSD daemon was > hacked and adapted to authenticate u...@domain kind of users from the > project FSSOS at > http://fssos.sourceforge.net/ > > nssd can be downloaded at > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/indimail/nssd-1.0.tar.gz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Courier-imap mailing list > Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap >
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