On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.ase...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Dale Macartney > <d...@themacartneyclan.com> wrote: > >> I have been experimenting with how best to address this, however I am >> constantly being pushed back to the only way of having a userdir that >> actually exists would be a homdir which would be created when a user >> first logs in. >> >> Yes, if you ssh to the dovecot server as the user (with oddjobd running >> in the background) it will create the homedir with no problems and the >> issue is resolved, however users should not *have to* interactively log >> into a server just to allow them to access mail. >> >> my only thinking here is shared homedirs (nfs?) between clients and >> servers, however my thoughts on this are "if dovecot is redirecting a >> users mail to their homedir, then why do we need dovecot to access it >> via imap when the mail will already appear in their homedir?" >> >> does anyone have any thoughts on this?
further you do not need to have the Maildirs on the users' homedirs: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Kerberos <quote> If you only want to use Kerberos ticket-based authentication: auth default { mechanisms = gssapi userdb static { args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/%u } } </quote> I have not tested it, but then you could have all the Maildirs in the imap server. -- natxo _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
