On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:26:24 +0100, "Lars Schimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > ph rhole oper wrote: > > lmtp daemon of Cyrus IMAP, is supposed to deliver mail localy. > > 1) Does it support getting afs tokens, and delivering mail in user's > > home directory? > > 2) If it does, will it need permanent afs tokens?Or can it obtain afs > > tokens right after > > a user logins (using it's krb5 creds)? > > As fas as I know, Cyrus has its own datastore and is only a POP/IMAP > program. > But you could split the cyrus datastore in small parts and store this > all over the net. I won't do this via NFS or AFS because of speed > reasons. mmm...what about lmtpd? > For a real mailserver you need something like exim or sendmail. > And again, because of speed reasons a dedicated machine with exim4/cyrus > on it is best. And it is much better to backup with a central database > for mail. thankfully we're running a light-duty network at the time.. > And if you are using krb5, cyrus and exim4 are capable of krb5-auth. > > But to answer your question: only with a correct token/ACL pair, a > service could write to a special directory in AFS. sure.. > For services there are "machine accounts" which are IPs as users what do you mean "there are", i haven't seen anything like this in the openafs documentation.Or is it a sysadmin hack?
> resulting in a PC with a special IP "possessing a legal token" as the > user. > sounds interesting..could you elaborate more on that? > > Bye > Lars > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung > Tel.: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP-Key-ID: 0xB87A0E03 thanks in advance -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely differentÂ… _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
