Devdas Bhagat rearranged electrons thusly:

> Let me clarify the situation:
> We don't want to add a user to /etc/passwd for such users, we want all 
> sub domains to have their own passwd and shadow files.

Virtual domains - use chrooted environments to do this.  http://www.freevsd.org
has a beautiful solution.  (yeah - freeVSD - not freeBSD)

> Since exim will not compile (:((), we are going to stick with sendmail 
> for some more time. So what is required is either giving such sites 
> their own passwd file, or a LDAP server backend (That I am going to try 
> out, Ring TFM now... wonder if I can understand it).
 
 man chroot, again ;)  also - exim ought to configure all right ... if you
 want, mail me offlist and we'll discuss this further.  (or i'll be on yahoo
 messenger as colt45revolver starting in another 5 minutes, for half an hour)
 
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Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux is like a Teepee - No Windows, No Gates, Apache Inside

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