"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote:
>
> I realize this may sound like a silly question, but I'm trying to wrap my
> head around the whole virtual users facility, and am trying to understand
> whether I can set up virtual users without also setting up virtual
> domains.
>
> In my current setup, all account are real users delivered to
> codegnome.org. I'm also interested in setting up virtual users (i.e. users
> without a login account) that are still part of the same domain as the
> real users (e.g. codegnome.org). Is this possible, and if so, can the
> virtual users and real users all get their pop mail from the same pop
> daemon?
>
> --
> Todd A. Jacobs
> CodeGnome Consulting, LTD
You most certainly can. The question here is how to authenticate both
users using the same pop server. To do that, just make a unique user
and group for your virtual users. Check out
http://freshmeat.net/projects/checklocalpwd/ for a version of
checkpassword that can authenticate in this manner. I also recommend
setting up all of your real users on the same interface as your virtual
users and then symbolically linking the mail directory to which the
virtual account would normally point to the real user's mail
directories. Keep inherent permissions in mind here or you'll have a
big security hazard. If you can't find a secure way of doing that, you
can always just write a shell script which will update the real users'
e-mail directories off from their virtual accounts and either make it a
command or throw it in your crontab.
--
Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.
