Hiya On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:40:18PM +0100, Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:21:45AM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > Which is the best way to create a POP only account? just change the > > last field in /etc/passwd to /bin/false? > No. My 2 cents (of Euro): use a directory for POP authentication > using the appropiate PAM modules, you could easily setup LDAP for this and > there are quite a number of POP3 daemons that provide LDAP schemas which > can be readily used in, for example, OpenLDAP. PAM is definately the way to go here. You can use the debian packages of for example your popdeamon-of-choice and just install the backend yourself (if you need to). Doing this via LDAP is a neat way, but you could also do the authentication and/or storing of all the mail via MySQL.
I bet you are already using PAM to authenticate via /etc/passwd, you're just not realize this :-) Check out the (not always easy to read) documentation about PAM, however it's worth a read. MfG/Regards, Alexander -- Alexander Reelsen http://joker.rhwd.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG: pub 1024D/F0D7313C sub 2048g/6AA2EDDB 7D44 F4E3 1993 FDDF 552E 7C88 EE9C CBD1 F0D7 313C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
