On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 15:00 -0500, kashani wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, kashani wrote: > > > >>Well yeah, but what happens when they ssh or ftp to the server? That's > >>the part I'm confused about. How does vpopmail auth them locally for > >>things other than mail which goes back to the original question. > > > > > > Our shell server and web servers are separate from our mail server but > > there's no reason you couldn't run this setup on the same server. > > > > Using libnss-mysql, you can have ssh and ftp also authenticate out of a > > MySQL database (the same database if you want). And since Pine and mutt on > > the shell server are configured to use IMAP, shell users can login and > > check email from there too.
Ah.. I see, since everything is stored in the db, you essentially are using the db to get the passwords. (this is like LDAP and posixAccounts). i would believe that this is also do-able via pam /passwd files, the caveat is then that they have to be on the same server else some rsync jobs to sync the passwords etc. > > > > Basically all of this has allowed us to move to an almost completely > > virtual setup where ordinary users dont have any "real" system accounts at > > all. > > And that isn't option #1 aka, stuff everything in a db and do central > auth from there" how? See I'm even loosing sleep just talking about > option #1. The rest of you have been warned. :) Looking forward to loosing sleep and thinning hair :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:51:59 up 2:02, 7 users, load average: 0.58, 0.74, 0.82 -- [email protected] mailing list
