Linuxconf gives these users ids and stores the information in /etc/vmail/passwd.virtualhostname, /etc/vmail/alias.virtualhostname, and /etc/vmail/shaddow.virtualhostname. I believe the user is to login with for example netscape or some other email client, the server would recognize the user by its username and domain. So you can have a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], both have login joe but are two separate email accounts. In order to get this to work, I need to have the system look up those other passwd, alias, and shadow files. I don't know how to set that up. Matt
"Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Matt Fair wrote: > > > Has anyone gotten virtual email working with linuxconf and sendmail? > > My system is set up to sort out the virtual emails, but I cannot log in > > to the system with the virtual user. > > Each domain has a passwd file, so it looks like when I login, it doesn't > > look in those files. > > When a user logs in to check their email I would like to have it check > > /etc/passwd and /etc/aliases, and if the user/password isn't in their > > it will look in the /etc/vmail/passwd.VIRTUALHOST and > > /etc/vmail/aliases.VIRTUALHOST files. > > This sounds interesting. When you say "login" do you mean by ssh or > telnet, for example? > > I am curious, how does the server (or login program) know which passwd > files to use? > > Is this with PAM? > > I am guessing, but maybe these "/etc/vmail/ users are mail-only users; > maybe they are not real Unix users (no UID), so they can't log in. > > Jeremy C. Reed > .................................................... > BSD software, documentation, resources, news... > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
