On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:56:35AM -0500, Dave Robinson wrote:
> Ok...I think we might be on to something. I went into LinuxConf and went
> into virtual mail domains. I deleted the users that were there and added a
> new one(all lower case). I then checked my passwd file and the new user was
> not there. I do have a file named shadow (no extension) and the new user
> doesnt exist in there either.
>
> So here is where I am at...
>
> Does the existence of a shadow file mean that the system is using shadow
> passwords?
Typically. But it may be implementing "virtual mail accounts" in some
way other than having real user accounts for them.
> What is the correct procedure for entering user id's and passwords for
> virtual domains?
I haven't done this before.
> Is there some other package I should be using for hosting a whole bunch of
> virtual domains?
'Sendmail' is the only MTA of which I know that has a wide array of
facilities for doing this. The only other MTA I would suggest would be
'postfix', but I don't know whether it allows this, or if it does, how.
Cf. <URL: http://www.postfix.org/>.
Hmmmm...
<URL: http://www.dynamite.org/postfix/rewrite.html#virtual>
<URL: http://www.dynamite.org/postfix/virtual.5.html>
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