On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Alejandro Martinez wrote: > Can I configure the imap server to have different users from the system > users ? (virtual users) I mean, can I authenticate the users with MD5 or > APOP, but they are not in the /etc/passwd /etc/shadow files but each of > them have it's own mailbox
If you are using UW imapd (or any other server which uses the UNIX security model), then each IMAP user must have a unique UNIX uid; otherwise users could access other users' mail. Although you could have a separate database for IMAP users, it would be pointless to do so, since you must still assign each user a UNIX uid. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
