I've been strugling with courier imap the past few days.  I tried to set 
up authentication via pam using the authpam module.The users do not have 
entries in /etc/passwd, because all naming services on the network go 
via ldap lookups. So in the rules for the service IMAP was a module that 
authenticates against an ldap server. It didn't work and I couldn't 
sleep, until I found these few senteses in the docs:

Additionally: PAM is used only for password validation. The home 
directory and the user and group IDs for the account are still taken 
from the system password file.

Why is this? Do you ignore the whole idea of nsswitch? I should be able 
to get my uids/gids from where I like (for example NIS or LDAP) when I 
configure nsswitch the right way...  Or am I spoiled and is this a Linux 
only thing?

Tim


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