On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 09:41 -0500, kashani wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Just wondering, can I say, have a virtual domain user [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (where localdomain is really local but just hosted as a virtual domain) > > which can have SSH/FTP access using the same password to access their > > email? > > My understanding is the are two major ways to solve this. > > 1. pam + db for all accounts including local accounts > Some db magic with pam or whatever local auth you do. This way the user > still has some sort of central auth and doesn't end up with 2 different > passwords and so forth. All accounts are virtual, but users designated > as local also get shell, ftp, etc. > > 2. One localdomain and all others are truly virtual. > set localdomain.com as local in your virtual config and everything else > to virtual. The pop/imap/smtp daemons should auth locally and it pretty > much just works in my experience. The caveat is that it is only feasible > to have one domain as local and it's generally an all local or all > virtual sort of thing. Mixing and matching local and virtual users > within the same domain can be painful and hard to manage. > > I did #2 since it's easy and I like sleep. I use Postfix, Courier, and
#2 is really very straightforward and that's already accomplishable. However, in the name of experimentation, I'm looking towards how to implement #1. if you have any more leads, do tell. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:49:12 up 1:59, 7 users, load average: 0.79, 0.85, 0.87 -- [email protected] mailing list
