Dbmail has a seperate authentication layer (auth.h) which you can use
to auhenticate dbmail users against any form of password storage you
wish (in your case, this would be pam).
There are however converter programs in the dbmail source directory
(see EXTRAS file) that can convert system users to dbmail users and
migrate any mbox styled files allong the way.
Good luck,
Eelco
On donderdag, dec 5, 2002, at 10:26 Europe/Amsterdam, Chris Nolan wrote:
Hi again all!
I've been doing some thinking, and was hoping to pass this by everyone.
Currently, almost every mail system out there supports some means or
another of authentication. If you change systems, things can suck
majorly.
I am looking at writing a daemon that will do the following:
1. Take username/password/other credentials supplied at login.
2. If the username exists in the preferred authentication
database/file/mechanism, authenticate, otherwise check the secondary
methods and (assuming there is a match), update the preferred and (if
specified) invalidate the old method.
This wouldn't be a DBMail specific thing, but would be a great help to
those of us who have been silly enough to start with users in
/etc/passwd + /etc/shadow for mail (myself included).
I'd also look at writing something for Postfix that would allow it to
do SMTP AUTH from DBMail's user database.
Chris
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